New Notes 



FOR • 



Bible Readings, 



S. R. BRIGGS. 



WITH SELECTIONS FROM 

D. L. MOODY, Major WHITTLE, J. H. BROOKES, D. D., Prof. W. G. 

MOOREHEAD, Rev. E. P. MARVIN, JNO. CURRIE, Rev. W. J. 

ERDMAN, F. E. MARSH, Dr. L. W. MUNHALL, 

AND OTHERS. 

Also BRIEF MEMOIR of the late S. R. BRIGGS, 

S\ BY 

/ 

REV. J. H. BROOKES, D. 

AUG 5 1889 

: 

^shingtO^X 

"Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit. .'\Jof~ 



: : jfleminG t>- 1Ret>ell : : 

New York : , Chicago-. 

12 BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE. 148 and 150 MADISON STREET. 

• : : ipublisbcr of Evangelical literature : : • 



[V 






Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by 

FLEMING H. REVELL, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



PREFACE. 



" New Notes " is not in any sense a reprint of the well-known 
" Notes and Suggestions for Bible Readings," edited by S. R. 
Briggs and J. H. Elliott; it is an entirely new collection; still it 
may be said to contain many of the same features as in the previous 
volume, which has now reached a sale of 30,000 during twelve 
years, being published in the United States, Great Britain and 
Canada; this great and continuous demand seems to be an estimate 
of, and certainly a testimony to, the value of such a book. 

Our father, the late Mr. S. R. Briggs, had looked forward to 
publishing such a work, but the Lord saw "tiis tired servant needed 
rest" and called him home, leaving others to complete the work 
begun. A large proportion of the Readings in this present vol- 
ume have been selected from that which he left behind as a result 
of over twenty years of Bible study. These may be known by 
not having the name of the author at their close. . 

Selections have also been made from many noted students of 
the Word, some of which Readings have been specially prepared by 
the authors, and are published now for the first time. The appli- 
cation of Truth is to some extent so general and universal that 
e. g. subjects specially suitable for the unsaved very often cannot 
but apply somewhat to the Believer, and vice versa. For this 
reason the index, with which exceptional care has been taken to 
make it a valuable help, must be depended on rather than on the 
divisional arrangement; however, the following general outline of 
Readings, we trust will be found to be somewhat suggestive. 



PREFACE. 

PAGE. 

How to Study the Bible; Inspiration, etc 33 

Readings Suitable for Systematic Courses 45 

" " " the Unsaved 87 

" " " Believers 98 

(Christian Workers, page 121.) 

" on Jesus Himself 147 

" Miscellaneous 166 

Every precaution has been taken to prevent errors in the 
Scripture references; each having been referred to and carefully 
compared after being set up in type. 

The author's name or initials appears at the close of each 
Reading except where the author is Mr. S. R. Briggs or "Anon." 
At this time when error in all its subtile and attractive forms 
and with its false modesty or its brazen defiance is permeating 
the living tissues of State, church, home and individual, let us far 
from welcome any book that will be a substitute for the personal 
and prayerful study of the infallible Word of God. "New Notes" 
will, we trust, be by the blessing of God, not a substitute for, but a 
stimulus to, and an aid in, such study. It does not profess to con- 
tain new Truths, but rather New Notes on old Truths, and if it helps 
to answer the question, "What is Truth?" to the glory of Him who 
is "The Truth," and whose "Word is Truth," it will accomplish its 
highest aim. W. A. B. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MR. S. R. BRIGGS. 

BY REV. JAMES H. BROOKES, D. D. 

It is a melancholy privilege to prepare a brief memoir of this 
beloved brother, as a preface to the following collection of " New 
Notes for Bible Readings." It is written, not as a tribute to his 
worthiness which he would have been the first to disclaim, but as a 
testimony to the grace he so delighted to exalt. Very beautifully 
did that grace shine in his heart and life ; and now that he has gone 
from the circle of his friends, the world seems to them a darker and 
meaner place. 

A native of Hull, England, where he was born in 1840, he came 
with his father's family, when a child but five years of age, to To- 
ronto, Canada. Here he passed his youth, not in idleness, but in 
hard and self-denying work, snatching such intervals as he could 
from constant toil to store his mind with valuable knowledge. His 
father was a builder, and he naturally preferred the same pursuit in 
life. But he was early thrown upon his own resources, and struggled 
forward bravely and resolutely from the humble position which is 
assigned a boy learning his trade. 

In 1861, just as he reached the period of manhood, he was brought 
to a knowledge of himself as a sinner, and to the knowledge of 
Christ as a Saviour. Nor was it an empty profession he made, but a 
sincere confession of a divine and most precious Redeemer. He 
instinctively felt that " no man, when he hath lighted a candle cov- 
ereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed ; but setteth it on a 
candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light." From the 
commencement of his new life he understood, at least in a measure, 
the experience and meaning of the Apostle when he wrote, " The 
love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one 
died for all, then were all dead ; and that He died for all that they 



2. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF S. R. BRIGGS. 

which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him 
which died for them, and rose again." Hence he at once went to 
work for the Master with the energy and persistence he had shown 
in working for himself, and so diligent was he in the study of God's 
word that he was soon promoted to the charge of an adult Bible 
class, which he continued to teach for the next twelve years. Then 
for seven years he instructed the Bible class of the Young Men's 
Christian Association, and for nearly three years conducted the 
Bible class of the Parkdale Presbyterian Church. 

In 1863 he was married, having made in spare moments almost 
all the furniture in the neat and comfortable cottage that received his 
young bride, to whom he was devotedly attached to the close of his 
earthly career, and in 1864 he established a wholesale lumber busi- 
ness. As the years went by his industry and sagacity brought him 
increasing wealth, and the temptations to which wealth always 
exposes its possessors. But he was not among those who " are 
choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring 
forth no fruit to perfection." It could still be said of him, " Not 
slothful in business ; fervent in spirit ; serving the Lord." As one 
of the Toronto journals announced after his departure : " In the 
midst of most pressing engagements — in season and out of season — 
he spoke a word, or handed a tract, if by any means he might save 
some." 

Pushed into prominence by the prosperity that attended his 
worldly pursuits, he was necessarily brought into contact with many 
ungodly men, and there is abundant evidence that he did not fail to 
address them in tones of earnest entreaty or solemn admonition. 
In July, 1875, he founded the Willard Tract Depository for the 
circulation of Gospel literature, investing his own capital in a stock 
of books and tracts, and cheerfully paying the expenses out of his 
personal resources. All the profits he devoted to the gratuitous 
distribution of tracts ; and, as if not content with this work, he vis- 
ited a large number of places in the province of Ontario, pleading 
with sinners to be reconciled to God through the death of His Son, 
and seeking to build up the saints in their most holy faith. 

In 1877 a financial storm that burst with special severity upon 
the business in which he was engaged, swept away his fortune. But 
he knew the truth of the inspired Word, " The name of the Lord is a 
strong tower ; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe," or ' set 
aloft." He often afterward stated to those whom he admitted into 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF S. R. I3RIGGS. 3 

his confidence, that God had greatly blessed him in the removal of 
his money, for in his emptiness there had been revealed to him 
nobler gain and truer riches. He could look up into the face of his 
loving and faithful Lord, and exclaim with a depth of joy he never 
knew before, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
stayed on thee ; because he trusteth in thee." 

From that time he was compelled to draw a small salary from 
the Willard Tract Depository, but all profits above actual expenses 
still went to the Free Distribution Fund. In 1882 a joint stock com- 
pany was formed to carry on the work. At the first prayer meeting, 
attended by only six or seven persons, the word of our Lord, 
" Have Faith in God," was suggested as an appropriate motto, and 
it now stands as the symbol of the institution, which soon attained a 
remarkable prosperity under his wise and energetic management. 
No one familiar with the history of this enterprise could doubt for 
a moment the signal ability he possessed for the successful prosecu- 
tion of any business intrusted to his hands. 

But he found time to do more work for the Master so dear to his 
heart. Frequently he left home on Friday evening, holding services 
in various places until the following Monday, preaching the gospel, 
arousing Christians to greater fidelity, and then returning quietly 
to his office. He was also a member of the Board of Managers 
of the International Medical Missionary Society of New York, 
an active laborer in the Union Mission Hall on College Avenue, 
editor for several years of Notes for Bible Study, a compiler with 
J. H. Elliott, of "Notes and Suggestions tor Bible Readings," which 
has now reached a sale of over 60,000, the founder and teacher of 
the Berean Circle, which met every week in his own house for the 
systematic study of the sacred Scriptures, and which has sent forth 
a number of faithful witnesses for Christ to foreign lands, or to the 
destitute population of our own cities. 

In addition to all of this service he was the treasurer and efficient 
helper of the Niagara Conference for Bible Study. Nowhere out- 
side of his own household will his absence be more keenly felt, than 
by the brethren who assemble annually on this beautiful spot in 
Christian fellowship and with loving hearts. It was a joy to receive 
his kindly greeting, it was a joy to unite with him in prayer, it was a 
joy to hear from him ever and anon a word of public testimony, and 
it was a joy to sit with him in the starlight, speaking of the things 
touching the King. The only solace to our sadness is the sweet 



4 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF S. R. ERIGGS. 

thought of a happy meeting soon in the presence of Christ, at "our 
gathering together unto Him." 

When the members of the Conference separated the last of July,, 
1887, little did they think that they were to see him no more on 
earth. He suffered toward the close of the meetings from a slight, 
illness that gave his friends no alarm. But it proved to be typhoid 
fever, and after he was removed to his home in Toronto he lingered 
until the morning of the Lord's Day, September 4, when he departed 
to be with Christ, which is far better. A little while before he was. 
absent from the body, he said to one of his children, "Well, my son, 
have you lost your faith yet?" The answer was, " No, father, have 
you ?" He could only whisper, but his whisper was very distinct, as 
he looked at his beloved wife, whose heart was almost breaking, and 
replied, " No, indeed, I have more than ever," and his face shone 
with the peace of God that passeth all understanding. The last 
message he gave that wife from the Word was the text, " I will trust, 
and not be afraid," and a more precious legacy he could not have 
left her in her loneliness and sorrow. 

Thus passed from human sight one of whom it can be said with- 
out extravagance that by the grace of God he was a model in many 
respects as a husband, as a father, as a business man, and as a Chris- 
tian. He not only read but responded to the gentle beseeching of 
the Holy Ghost, " by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies 
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which io your reason- 
able service. And be not conformed to this world, but be ye trans- 
formed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is 
that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God." It was his one 
aim and ambition that Christ should be magnified in his body, 
whether by life or death. 

Perhaps his character and principles can be best illustrated by 
the following letter which he sent to the church with which he had 
been connected, when he changed his place of residence to a distant 
part of the city : 

Beloved Brethren in Christ Jesus ; Grace unto you, and peace from God our 
Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Having removed with my family to this neighborhood, it will be impracticable 

for us to meet with you af in Christian fellowship. But as members of one 

family, the family of God, our Father, we can meet, " though sundered far, around 
one common mercy seat ;" and by and by we shall be gathered home. 

In taking the farewell, I cannot do so without reflection. My mind goes back 
to the time and place where the- dear Lord Jesus spoke peace to my troubled soul, 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF S. R. BRIGGS. 5 

now more than seventeen years ago. Then I was led with my dear wife to join in 
Christian fellowship with you, and other dear ones who are gone to be with Jesus. 
In looking over these seventeen years, as far as I am concerned, I see, oh ! so 
much I wish had been different ; so many imperfections, so much unlikeness to 
One whom T professed to love ; so much unfaithful testimony ; so much that was 
not in keeping with the mind of Him who gave Himself for me ; so much of the 
flesh, and so little of the spirit ; so much unholiness, and so little holiness ; so 
much for time, and so little for eternity ; so much of self, and so little of Christ ; 
so much left undone that ought to have been done, and so much done that ought 
not to have been done. 

Were it not that we have One with the Father who ever liveth to make inter- 
cession for me, I could have no hope. But, thanks be unto God, " If any man sin, 
we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." Of late years I 
have been led, I trust, to live more for HIM, who loved me, and gave Himself for 
me ; and yet, oh ! how very far short I come of what it is my privilege and duty to 
be. If I have not entered into many of your social gatherings the last two years, 
it has not been for want of love to any of you, but from a conscientious conviction 
that I would be grieving my blessed Lord, by having to do with those things, 
which I believe are not of the Spirit but of the flesh. If I have wounded the feel- 
ings of any brother, most gladly would I do all in my power to heal the wound. 

And now, dear brethren, in leaving you, suffer a word of exhortation. Take 
heed to the word of God concerning the great evil of the church of God conform- 
ing in this day to this present evil world. It is the canker worm, which is eating 
out the very vitals of the church. The church and the world, which in the New 
Testament are so broadly separated, having become so mingled, it is difficult to 
distinguish them. The church to-day is not living as the dear Lord desired she 
should live, when he gave utterance to that touching prayer in John xvii. Oh, 
how much like the world ; oh, how unlike Christ ; oh, how dimly her light burns ; 
oh, how cold her love : oh, how little her influence for good ; oh, how little bold 
testimony for the truth : oh, how little persecution ; oh, how little going forth to 
Him without the camp, bearing His reproach ; oh, how little she enters into the 
fellowship of his sufferings ; oh, how her chariot wheels drag, through being 
clogged by that which is earthly ! 

Let us AWAKE ! AWAKE ! ! Beloved. The time for service will soon be 
over. Loved ones will be forever damned, if we do not do our duty. Let us arise to 
our privilege, and shine forth as lights in the world holding forth the word of life. 
Let us fulfil our mission, and say with our beloved brother Paul, " To me to live is 
Christ ;" " Whose I am, and whom I serve ;" " Looking for the blessed hope, and the 
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Him- 
self for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a 
peculiar people, zealous of good works." 

It is no wonder that such a man was a power in the church and 
city, blessed with his presence. It is no wonder that mention of his 
departure was made from many of the evangelical pulpits and that 
the cessation of his labors was felt by good men to be a public ca- 
lamity. But the spring of his activity and zeal, as he more than once 



6 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF S. R. BRIGGS. 

said to his intimate friends, was his practical faith in the personal 
and pre-millennial coming of the Lord. It threw the interests of time 
into the background of His contemplation. It made all intermediate 
events and death itself, of trifling moment in comparison with the 
glory which is then to be revealed. It was a constant stimulus to 
fidelity in the service of the Master, that he might win the smile of 
His approval in that day. It softened and sweetened the gifts and 
graces he had received, and drew after him the affections of all who 
had fellowship with him in the truth. Those who knew him best 
loved him most, and in the light of the hope that cheered him 
through all toils and trials, they can say, Farewell, brother, until the 
meeting in the air ! 



KEYS TO THE WORD.* " 

BY A. T. PIERSON, D. D. 

Genesis. Key- word: Beginning. 
Key-verse :i: i. 
Divisions — i. i-xi. From Adam to Noah. 

2. xii-1. From Abraham to Joseph. 
Exodus. Key-word: Pass-over. 
Key-verse: xii:23. 
Divisions — i. i-xii. Israel in Egypt. 

2. xiii-xviii. From Egypt to Sinai. 

3. xix-xl. At Sinai; the Law given. 
Leviticus. Key-word: Atonement. 

Key-verse: XVK34. 
Divisions — 1. i-xvi. The way to God by sacrifice. 

2. xvii-xxvii. The walk with God by sanctinca- 
tion and separation. 
Numbers. Key- word: Sojourn. 
Key-verse: xxxiii:i. 
Divisions — 1. i-x:io. Preparations for march from Sinai. 

2. x:ii-xxi. Journey from Sinai to Moab. 

3. xxii-xxxiv. In Moab preparing to enter 

Canaan. 
Deuteronomy. Key- word: Obedience. 
Key-verse: x:i2, 13. 
Divisions — 1. i-iv. Summary of desert wanderings. 

2. v. Rehearsal of Decalogue. 

3. vi-xxvi. Laws, etc., as to conduct in Canaan. 

4. xxvii-xxviii. Blessings and curses. 

5. xxix-xxx. Covenant with God. 

6. xxxi-xxxii. Moses' Exhortation and Song. 

7. xxxiii. His final "Blessing." 

8. Supplemental narrative of Moses' death. 

♦Taken by special permission of the author, from "Keys to the Word, or Helps to Bible 
Study." Price 75 cents, to be had from the publisher of this volume. 

7 ' 



KEYS TO THE WORD. 

Joshua. Key- word: Possession. 
Key- verse: 1:3. 
Divisions — 1. i-xii. Conquest. 

2. xiii-xxiv. Partition. 
Judges. Key-word: Anarchy. 
Key-verse: XXK25. 
Divisions — 1. i-iii:6. Introduction. 

2. iii:7-xvi. Main History. 

3. xvii-xxi. Appendix: Fragmentary narratives 

without chronological order. 
Ruth. Key-word: Kinsman (Redeemer.) 

Key-verse: iv:i4. 
/ II Samuel. Key-word: Kingdom. 

Key-verse: I Sam. x:25. 
Divisions — 1. I Sam. i-vii. Samuel, the Prophet-Judge. 

2. I Sam. viii-xxxi. Saul's career. 

3. II Sam. i-v:5. David, King over Judah. 

4. II Sam. v:6-xx. David, King over Israel. 

5. II Sam. xxi-xxiv. Appendix. 
/ II Kings. Key-word: Royalty. 

Key-verses: I Kings ii:i 2 ; xi:i3. 
Divisions — 1. I Kings i-xi. From Solomon's coronation to 
death. 

2. I Kings xii — II Kings xvii. From Reho- 

boam to the captivity of Israel under 
the Assyrians. 

3. II Kings xviii-xxv. From Hezekiah to the 

captivity of Judah under the Chaldeans. 
/ II. Chronicles. Key-word: Theocrasy. 

Key- verse: II Chron. xv:2. 
Divisions — 1. I Chron. i-ix. Genealogies, etc. 

2. I Chron. x-xxix. Kingdom under David. 

3. II Chron. i-ix. Kingdom under Solomon. 

4. II Chron. x-xxxvi. Kingdom from Reho- 

boam to Zedekiah. 
Ezra, Nehe?niah. Key-word: Restoration. 

Key-verses: Ezra 1:5; Neh. ii:5. 
Divisions — Ezra. 

1. i-vi. Return from captivity. 

2. vii-x. Events in reign of Artaxerxes, etc. 



KEYS TO THE WORD. 9 

Between these two sections lies a gap of 57 years. 
Nehemiah. 

1. i-vii. Nehemiah's narrative. 

2. viii-ix. Narrative continued by another 

party. 

3. x-xii:26. Six important lists. 

4. xii:27-xiii. Dedication of wall and reforms 
Esther. Key-word: Providence. 

Key-verse: iv:i4. 
Job. Key-word: Trial. 
Key-verse: v.q. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii. Historical prologue. 

2. iii-xlii:6. Allegorical narrative with semi- 

dramatic dialogue and tripartite division. 

3. xlii:7-i7. Historical Epilogue. 
Psalms. Key-word: Worship. 

Key-verse: xxix:2. 
Divisions — Five books marked by their peculiar endings. 

1. i-xli. Ending with Doxology and double 

Amen. 

2. xlii-lxxii. Same ending with the sentence: 

"The prayers of David. . . .are ended." 

3. lxxiii-lxxxix. Same ending as Book I. 

4. xc-cvi. Same, with Hallelujah. 

5. cvii-cl. Ending with many Hallelujahs. 
Proverbs. Key-word: Wisdom. 

Key-verse: ix:io. 
Divisions — 1. i-ix. Admonitions, especially to the young. 

2. x-xxiv. Miscellaneous, for all classes. 

3. xxv-xxix. Later collections by Scribes 

under Hezekiah, etc. 

4. xxx-xxxi. Supplement. Words of Agur and 

Lemuel. 
Ecclesiastes. Key-word: Vanity. 
Key-verse: ii:n. 
Divisions — 1. i:i-n. Preface. 

2. i : 1 2-ii : 26. Results of experiment. 

3. iii-viii-15. Results of observation. 

4. viii:i6-xii:7. Induction. 

5. xii:8-i4. Grand conclusion. 



IO KEYS TO THE WORD. 

The Song of Solomon. Key- word: Beloved. 
Key- verse: vi:3. 
Divisions — i. i:i. Inscription. 

2. i:2-v:i. The Bride in the King's Chamber; 

His visit, Her dream, and the Royal 
Espousals. 

3. v:2-viii:i4. The King's wife; Seeking and 

Finding; The return home, etc. 
Isaiah. Key-word: Salvation. 
Key-verse: liii:5- 
Divisions — 1. i-xxxix. Chronological and Historical. 
2. xl-lxvi. The Song of Messiah. 
Jeremiah. Key-word: Warning. 

Key-verse: vii:28; xlvin. 
Divisions — 1. i-xxxviii. Prophecies, etc., as to Judah, 
down to the Chaldean Invasion. 

2. xxxix-xliv. Prophecy and History after 

Jerusalem's fall. 

3. xlvi-li. Prophecies against Egypt, Philistia, 

Moab, Ammon, Edom, Damascus, Kedar 
and Hazor, Elam and Babylon. Chap, 
xlv is a fragment apparently out of place; 
chap. Hi is an appendix. 
Lamentations. Key-word: Destruction. 
Key-verse: ii:n. 
Divisions — Five elegies, each a chapter. The first, second 
and fourth, each subdivided into two equal 
parts, and the third into three (1-18, 19-42, 
43-66). The subdivisions are easily de- 
tected by change of speaker and personal 
pronoun. 
Ezekiel. Key-word: Visions. 
Key-verse: i:i. 
Divisions — 1. i-xxiv. Introductory Vision, Commission as 
Prophet, Prediction of Jerusalem's fall. 

2. xxv-xxxii. Judgment of Ammon, Tyre,, 

Egypt, Edom, Moab, Philistia. 

3. xxxiii-xxxix. Warnings and promises to 

Israel and Judah. 

4. xl-xlviii. Ideal Temple and City 



KEYS TO THE WORD. II 

Daniel. Key-word: Revealed secret. 
Key-verse: ii:22. 
Divisions — i i-vi. The conflict. 

2. vii-xii. The revelation. 
Hosea. Key-word: Return. 4 

Key- verse: xiv:9. 
Divisions — i. i-iii. The marriage covenant with Jehovah. 
2. iv-xiv. The stages of decline: the exhorta- 
tion to return. 
Joel. Key- word: Judgment. 
Key-verse: 11:13. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii 117. The Judgment and call to Re- 
pentance. 
2. ii:i8 — iii:2i. The promise for the present 
and future. 
Amos. Key-word: Punishment. 
Key-verse: iv:i2. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii. Prophecies against Syrians, Philis- 
tines, Phoenicians, Edomites, Ammonites, 
Moabites, etc. 

2. iii-vi. Against Israel. 

3. vii-ix. Visions, Consolatory and Condemna- 

tory, covering times previous to, and dur- 
ing Messiah's reign. 
Obadiah. Key- word: Edom. 
Key-verse; 21. 
Divisions — 1. 1-9. Judgment announced. 

2. 10-16. Its Justification. 

3. 17-21. Promised salvation to Zion. 
Jonah. Key-word: Overthrow. 

Key-verse: iii:2. 
Divisions — 1. i. Jonah's commission and correction. 

2. ii. His prayer and deliverance. 

3. iii-iv. His commission renewed and dis- 

charged. 
Micah. Key- word: Controversy. 
Key-verse: vi:2. , 
Divisions — 1. i-ii. Divine visitation of Israel and Judah. 
2. iii-v. The desert of sin, and the grace of 
the last days. 



12 KEYS TO THE WORD. 

3. vi-vii. Jehovah's controversy and forgive- 
ness. 
Nahum. Key-word: Full End. 

Key-verse: i:8, 9. 
Habakkuk. Key-wyd: Faith. 
Key-verse: ii:4. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii. The Prophet's colloquy. He speaks, 
i:2-4. God answers, 5-1 1. He speaks 
again, 12-17. He then takes a waiting 
attitude, ii:i. God speaks again, 2-20. 
2. iii. The prayer. 
Zephaniah. Key-word: Remnant. 
Key-verses: i:4; iii .-13. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii 13. The Day of Judgment. 

2. ii:4 — iii 17. The provocation. 

3. iii:8-2o. The salvation. 
Haggai. Key-word: Build. 

Key-verse: i:8. 
Divisions — 1. i. The exhortation. 

2. ii: 1-9. The encouragement. 

3. ii: 10-19. A message to the priests. 

4. ii:2o-23. A message to Zerubbabel. 
• Zechariah. Key-word: Jealous. 

Key-verse: viii:2. 
Divisions — 1. i-vi. Visions. 

2. vii-viii. Concerning fasts. 

3. ix-xiv. The prophetic Prospect. 
Malachi. Key-word: Robbery. 

Key-verse: iii:8. 
Divisions — 1. 1:1-5. Introductory expostulation of Jehovah. 

2. i:6 — ii:9. Rebuke of priests. 

3. ii: 10-16; Rebuke of divorce and mixed 

marriages. 

4. ii : 1 7 — iii:6. The coming messenger. 

5. iii:7-i2. Tithes and offerings. 

6. iii: 13 — iv:6. The coming day of the Lord. 



Matthew. Key-word: Kingdom. 
Key-verse. xxvii:37. 



KEYS TO THE WORD. 1 3 

Divisions — I. i-iv:i6. From Christ's birth to His public 
ministry. 

2. iv:i7 — xvi:28. His public ministry to His 

transfiguration. 

3. xvii:i — xxviii:2o. His transfiguration to His 

last command. 
Mark. Key-word: Service. 
Key-verse: x:45. 
Divisions — i. i:i-2o. Introduction: The forerunner, Bap- 
tism, Temptation, etc. 

2. i:2i — viii 138. His miraculous ministry. 

3. ix:i — xvi:2o. From Transfiguration to As- 

cension. 
Luke. Key-word: Son of Man. 
Key-verse: xix:io. 
Divisions — 1. i-iv:i3. Introduction to Christ's public 
ministry. 

2. iv:i4— xxi. To the last Passover. 

3. xxii-xxiv. To His Ascension Blessing. 
John. Key-word: Life. 

Key-verse: xx:3i. 
Divisions — 1. i:i-i8. Introduction, Prologue. 

2. 1:19 — xii. Successive manifestations to the 

Jews, Samaritans and Galileans. 

3. xiii-xix. Christ's Passion and Death. 

4. xx-xxi. Resurrection and Epilogue. 
Acts. Key- word: Witness. 

Key-verse: i:8. 
Romafis. Key-word: Righteousness. 
Key-verse: i:i 7. 
Divisions — Mainly three: 

1. i-viii. Argument. Salvation by faith in 

Christ alone. The whole world, Gentiles 
and Jews, condemned and guilty before 
God. Justification provided in Christ, 
whose obedience and suffering availed the 
sinner, who by faith is identified with Him. 

2. ix-xi. Mutual relations of Jews and Gen- 

tiles, and the two dispensations. 
z. xiii-xvi. Practical duties, etc. 



14 KEYS TO THE WORD. 

I Corinthians. Key-word: Wisdom. 
Key- verse: xiij, 8. 
Divisions — i. i:i-9. Introduction. 

2. i:io — iv:2i. Church factions. 

3. v:i — vi:2o. Church discipline. 

4. viin-40. Marriage and celibacy. 

5. viii: 1 — xi:i. Meat offered to Idols. - 

6. xi 12-34. Abuses in church assemblies. 

7. xii:i — xiv:4o. The gifts of the Spirit. 

8. xv. Resurrection 

9. xvi. Sundry minor matters. 
II Corinthia?is. Key-word: Comfort. 

Key-verse: vii:6, 7. 
Galatians. Key-word. Faith. 
Key-verse. iii:2. 
Divisions — 1. i-ii. Paul's Apostolate. Salvation by grace 

2. iii-iv. The Bondage of Law. 

3. v-vi. The Liberty of Sons. 
Ephesians. Key- words: In Christ. One. 

Key-verse: i:3. 
Divisions — 1. i-iv:i6. Origin, institution and purpose of 
Christ's Universal Church. 

2. iv:i7 — vi:io. Ethical duties, truth, purity, 

love, marriage service. 

3. vi:io 24. Concluding exhortation. Panoply 

of God, etc. 
Philippians. Key- word: Gain. 

Key-verses: iii:7, 14; iv:4. 
Divisions — 1. i:i-26. Paul's love and joy. 

2. i:27 — ii:3o. The heavenly citizen and his 

privileges. 

3. iii. Christian progress. 

4. iv. Six practical exhortations 
Colossians. Key- word: In Christ, Complete. 

Key-verse. ii:io. 
Divisions — 1. i:i-i2. Opening salutation and prayer. 

2. i:i3 — ii:5. The Doctrine of the Epistle. 

The Saints in Christ. 

3. ii:6 — iv:6. Practical exhortations based on 

this doctrinal teaching. 

4. iv.7-18. Closing salutations. 



KEYS TO THE WORD. 15 

/ II Thessalonians. Key-word: Waiting. 

Key-verses: I Thess. i:io; II Thess. iii.5. 
/ II Timothy. Key-word: Doctrine. 

Key-verses: I Tim. iii : 9 ; II Tim. K13. 
Titus. Key- word: Profitable. 

Key-verse: hi. -8, 9. 
Philemon. Key-word: Receive (Intercession). 

Key- verse: 17. 
Hebrews. Key-word: Better. 
Key-verse: xi:4o. 
Divisions — 1. i-x:i8. The grand argument. 

2. x:i9 — xiii:25 Practical exhortations and 
admonitions. 
James. Key- word: Works. 

Key-verse: ii:26. 
/ II Peter. Key- word: Precious. 

Key-verse: I Peter ii : 7. 
/ John. Key-word: Fellowship. 
Key-verse: v:i3 
Divisions — 1. i.1-4. Introductory; The Logos; His Eter- 
nity and Identity with the Father. His 
Revelation in the Flesh. 

2. i:5 — ii: 1 r. The message concerning Light. 

3. ii:i2 — v. - 3. The message concerning Love. 

4. v:4-2i. The message concerning Life. 

II John. Key- word: Walk (in truth). 

Key-verse: 6. 

III John. Key-word: Fellow-helper (to the truth). 

Key-verse: 8. 
Jude. Key-word: Kept. 
Key- verses: 21, 24. 
Divisions — 1. 1-2. Salutation. 

2. 3. Exhortation. 

3. 4-16. Warning examples. 

4. 17-23. Secrets of preservation. 

5. 24, 25. Grand Doxology. 
Revelation. Key-word: Revelation. 

Key- verse: i:i. 

"Surely I come quickly." 

" Amen !" 

" Even so, come Lord Jesus." 



HOW TO STUDY AND TEACH THE SCRIPTURES. 



BY REV. \V. Wi CLARK. 



It is one thing to have the Bible in the hand, and quite another 
thing to know how to handle it. The word of God is called by Paul 
l * the sword of the Spirit/' Any one can hold a sword, but only an 
expert can use it skilfully. The task assigned me is to show " how 
to study and teach the Scriptures," how to wield this sword of the 
Spirit. Study comes before teaching, and is the foundation for 
teaching. As Paul writes to Timothy, " Study to show thyself ap- 
proved unto God, rightly dividing (or, according to the revision, 
handling aright) the word of truth." This should be the aim and 
desire of every Sunday school teacher, to handle aright God's holy 
word. And this may be done by bearing in mind and believing with 
the heart a few general principles relative to the Bible. These then, 
are the points we will consider in their order : " The Author," 
"The Outline," "Subject," "Purpose," "Internal Divisions," 
" Teacher." 

FIRST THE AUTHOR. 

Who wrote this book ? This is the most important matter for 
us to settle ere we study and teach the Scriptures. The great theo- 
logical question of the day is concerning the character of revelation, 
whether the Bible be wholly inspired, or partly inspired, or not 
inspired at all. Even among theologians there is a vast difference 
of opinion ; and as these opinions are ventilated in the secular and 
religious press it is our duty to look into the matter deeply, that we 
may not only be convinced ourselves, but be able to persuade others, 
also. 

We believe in the full verbal inspiration of Holy W T rit, that the 
Scriptures as they originally came from the hands of the writers 
were in truth "God-breathed." 

As students and teachers of the oracles we must know whether 
our faith rests upon the wisdom of men or on the authority of God. 
Paul writes to the Thessalonians, " For this cause we thank God 
without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God from 
us, ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth, the 
2 17 ' 



l8 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

word of God." Peter writes, " Holy men of old spoke as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost," and he also declares, "This Scripture 
must be fulfilled which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake 
concerning Judas." David himself said, " The Spirit of the Lord 
spake by me, and His word was in my tongue." 

If this be true in relation to the spoken word, it is especially so 
in relation to the written word. This is declared in II Timothy 
iii: 16: "All Scripture (/. e. every writing) is inspired of God." 
If all the writings are not inspired, who is to decide what portion is 
of God, and what of man ? Each reader may cut and carve, accept 
and reject as he chooses, and in the end nothing but threads and 
patches of the divine book will remain. There was a minister in 
New England who thought he knew how to draw the line, and one 
of his parishioners was in the habit of marking every portion of the 
Bible which the learned preacher said was not inspired. After each 
service he took his penknife and cut out these passages. The Old 
Testament miracles came out one by one; sometimes an entire chap- 
ter, and then a whole book would be removed, and after a few years 
of this sort of work the Bible was shown the minister with its muti- 
lated pages and ragged stubs. " Give it to me," said the preacher, 
in a tone of wonder and excitement. " No," was the reply. " I 
will hold it myself and thank God I have the covers left." 

Bear in mind that it is the record that is inspired and not every 
utterance. Satan was not inspired to say to Adam, " Thou shalt not 
surely die," for it was a falsehood : but Moses was inspired to write 
it. Ananias was not led by God "to lie to the Holy Ghost," but 
Luke was inspired to give us the record. Peter was not inspired to 
deny the Lord, but he was inspired to make a confession as to His 
divinity. The record of the former is as much inspired as the record 
of the latter. 

The Old Testament testimony is superabounding. Mark the 
utterances of the prophets, " Hear the word of the Lord which came 
into Isaiah," "Jeremiah," and " expressly unto Ezekiel the priest." 
This phrase " the word of the Lord " or its equivalent is used one 
hundred times in Jeremiah, sixty times in Ezekiel, fifty times in Amos, 
twenty-four times in Malachi. All the minor prophets sound the same 
note. It is like the roar of heaven's artillery all along the line, " thus 
saith the Lord." In the New Testament the marvelous differences in 
the gospels and the wonderful peculiarities of every epistle are to be 
accounted for, by being attributed not to the weak and finite minds 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 19 

•of the human penman, but to the omniscient mind of an infinite God. 
Nor does this belief interfere with the human element in inspiration. 
These men were not like brass trumpets through whom God spoke, 
but they wrote in language which accorded with their education and 
temperament, and yet they were so led by the Spirit that God alone 
is responsible for what they have written. 

Students and teachers, hold fast to this, that the Bible not only 
contains the word of God but that it is the word of God. Canon 
Ryle forcibly says : " Give me the plenary verbal theory with all its 
difficulties rather than doubt. I accept the difficulties and humbly 
wait for their solution ; but while I wait, ] am standing on a rock. 

" 'How precious is the Book Divine 

By inspiration given, 
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine, 

To guide our way to Heaven.' " 

SECOND THE OUTLINE. 

Paul enjoins Timothy to " hold fast the form (outline) of sound 
words." And he further says that God hath given us "the spirit of 
a sound mind." If this be exercised in the pursuit of Scriptural 
wisdom, much knowledge will be gained. The Bible may be studied 
like the globe. The latter has its two hemispheres ; each hemis- 
phere three continents ; every continent has its countries ; every 
•country its divisions into states, counties and towns. So the Bible 
has its two testaments, each testament three great divisions — the 
historic, poetic, and prophetic portions in the Old Testament ; the 
historic, doctrinal and prophetic portions in the New Testament ; 
these divisions are subdivided into chapters and verses. 

We should seek to learn the general scope of the Bible as a 
whole, of each testament every division, and particularly the aim 
and outline of the individual books. As we take up each portion, 
let us inquire : What was the design of God in writing this partic- 
ular book ? For what special purpose was this gospel, epistle, or 
prophecy written ? And we often find the key to the book in the 
first verse. (See Isaiah i: i; Matthew i: i; John i: i; Revelation i: 1.) 

" To know the Word, perceive its plan, 

To feel its force and learn its scope, 

Is the believer's precious hope ; 
Not given to the natural man. 

O, be the blessings truly thine, 

That in thee God's own light shall shine." 



20 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS 

Genesis is the book of beginnings ; Exodus treats of redemption; 
Leviticus of priesthood ; Numbers of wilderness journeyings, and 
Joshua of warfare. In the other historic books there is also a lead- 
ing thought. Take the prophecies. Isaiah treats of Judah and 
Jerusalem, as its first verse declares, while Hosea is burdened on 
account of backsliding Israel. Dr. John Hall once said to a com- 
pany of students, that the man who would open up the hidden 
beauties of the minor prophets would be doing for the Bible what 
Livingstone and Stanley had done for the world in opening up Cen- 
tral Africa. There is no study that we have enjoyed more than this, 
taking each prophet by himself and endeavoring to obtain a clear 
idea of the scope and aims of his prophecy. 

In the study of the New Testament it is essential to grasp the 
outline of each book. Matthew's aim is to present Jesus as the 
Messiah of the Jews, the son of David and of Abraham, the fulfiller 
of the law and prophets. Mark portrays the Lord as the servant 
who came " not to be ministered unto, but to minister ;" the meek 
and lowly One who went about doing good. Luke presents Jesus as 
the Son of Man, tracing His lineage beyond Abraham to Adam and 
setting forth His compassion, love and sympathy. But John depicts 
Him as the Son of God, describing His divine glories as Creator, 
Redeemer and Judge. Matthew is Jewish, Mark is Roman, Luke 
is universal, and John is spiritual. The characteristic differences of 
these four books should be carefully studied, instead of trying to 
make " harmony ;" for only in this way can we obtain the mind of 
God in this fourfold record of His Son. 

The outline and scope of each epistle is very necessary to under- 
stand before we can either read or teach intelligently. Look at 
Ephesians for example. It contains six chapters. The first three 
are occupied with our spiritual blessings, the last three with our 
responsibilities. Paul, after showing how high and exalted our call- 
ing is, exhorts us to walk worthy of it (chap, iv: i), and then goes on 
to tell how to walk ; after which he clothes us with the whole armor 
of God and tells us to stand. We who are sitting in heavenly places 
are told to walk in earthly places, and then to fight against the wiles 
of the devil. This is the outline of the Ephesians. Every other 
epistle as well as the Revelation has its own peculiar theme, which 
we should attempt to comprehend ere we can derive the fullest 
benefit in its study. Miles Coverdale, in his preface to the English 
Bible (1535), says : "Jt will greatly help you to understand Script- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 21 

ure, if you mark not only what is written, but of whom and to 
whom ; with what words, at what time, where, to what extent, with 
what circumstances, considering that which goes before and that 
which follows." Remember that if you can. 

THIRD THE SUBJECT. 

This is Christ. All Scripture is about Him and His coming. 
The voice of the Old Testament is, " He is coming ;" that of the 
.gospels, " He has come ," of the epistles and Revelation, " He will 
come again." The Lord Himself says, " Search the Scriptures, for 
they are they which testify of Me." It is said that in the Swedish 
language there is no word which can be translated "search," so they 
have used another word " ransack," and this is what we ought to do, 
ransack the Scriptures, for "they are they which testify of Christ." 

We should begin and continue all study with this thought in 
mind. As every picture has its " point of sight," so each book in 
the Bible has Christ as its center and its object. The disciples 
thought they knew the Scriptures ; but they did not see Jesus in 
them, for the Lord rebuked them for their failure in this very par- 
ticular, saying, " O fools and slow of heart to believe all that the 
prophets have spoken. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, 
He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning 
Himself." Here we have a Bible reading conducted by the Master, 
on the road to Emmaus, and this was His subject, " Christ in the 
Old Testament." Again He says: "All things must be fulfilled 
which are written in the law, and the prophets, and in the Psalms, 
concerning me." These are the three great divisions of the Old 
Testament, and we can imagine the great Teacher opening the' eyes 
■of his followers and declaring, " In the volume of the book it is 
written of me." No wonder "their hearts burned within them as 
He talked with them by the way." 

The study of Christ in the Old Testament is exceedingly profit- 
able. In Genesis He is described as the seed of the woman ; in 
Exodus, as the " Passover Lamb ;" in Leviticus, the high priest; in 
Numbers, the smitten rock and the uplifted serpent, and in Deuter- 
onomy the person of Moses. All of these typify and set forth the 
person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

The Psalms also are full of references to Him. All the proph- 
ets, either in type or in prediction, "testified beforehand of His 
sufferings and the glory that should follow." The Gospels record 



2 2 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

His life, death, resurrection and ascension ; the Acts, the establish- 
ment of His Church ; the Epistles, the development of His doctrines; 
and the Apocalypse, the revelation of his coming glory. 

The great work of the Holy Spirit is to testify of Christ. " He 
shall glorify me." " He shall take of mine and show them unto- 
you." 

In fact, the whole Bible may be expressed by two words, Christ, 
Jesus ; Christ in the Old Testament, Jesus in the New. 

There is a very beautiful hymn in our collection, which we like 
to hear the children sing. " Every Lesson Points to Thee:" 

While we look within Thy Word, 
Show Thy face to us, O Lord; 
In these pages may we see 
Every lesson points to Thee. 

Symbol, precept, judgment, law, 
Melting love and holy awe, 
Teach us Lord, whate'er it be, 
Every lesson points to Thee. 

FOURTH THE PURPOSE. 

All Scripture was written for us that we might thereby be edified> 
growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord. Paul says, " All 
Scripture is profitable." But some readers doubt the value of the 
Old Testament; yet the apostle says, ''Whatsoever things were 
written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through 
patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope." The 
very incidents against which infidelity raises its voice in protest, are 
the ones which the Lord Jesus Christ sanctions and presents to us 
for our admonition and learning. For instance, of the flood, He 
says : "As it was in the days of Noah so shall it be in the days of 
the Son of Man." Of her who was turned into a pillar of salt He 
says : " Remember Lot's wife." The uplifted serpent of brass He 
has likened to Himself raised on the cross, and with the story of 
Jonah and the whale He links the great truth of the resurrection. 
Paul, after giving an outline of events in the history of Israel says: 
'* All these things happened unto them for examples (or types) and 
they are written for our admonition." We see then that these Old 
Testament histories have a present value for our souls. 

According to Andrew Jukes the types of Genesis are these — 
Adam, a type of ruin; Abel, one of atonement; Noah, of regeneration ; 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 23 

Abraham, of faith ; Isaac, of sonship ; Jacob, of service ; Joseph, of 
glory. The order of these lives forms the outline of Genesis, and 
corresponds to the development of the new creation within us. 
Thus, ruin is counteracted by atonement, and regeneration is the 
result of atonement, after which faith begets sonship, and sonship 
begets service, while service leads to a life of suffering which will be 
followed by glory hereafter. The series never changes, nor do its 
stages come by chance. And as we read this " Book of Beginnings" 
let us not consider it a mere history or biography, but remember 
that " all these things happened unto them for types, and were written 
for our admonition.'' 

In Exodus is typified redemption by the blood ; in Leviticus, 
sacrifice on the cross and priesthood on the throne ; in Numbers 
and Deuteronomy is recorded our wilderness experience, with its 
sinnings and repentings ; Joshua sets forth Christian warfare, our 
conflict with "the world, the flesh, and the devil ;" Judges describes 
failure in the land, of which Bishop Hall says : " A continued circle 
of sins, judgments, repentances, and deliverances." Does not this 
describe many of the experiences of God's children ? 

All other Old Testament books have a present value to us, and 
are profitable for our instruction in righteousness. 

The purpose of the New Testament books is too evident to 
need comment. We may sum up the purpose of the Gospels with 
the final words of the fourth evangelist : " These are written that 
ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God, and that 
believing ye might have life through His name." The purpose of 
the epistles is expressed by the same author, John : " These things 
write we unto you that your joy may be full," and "that ye may 
know that ye have eternal life." 

The value of the Revelation is expressed by the same aged seer: 
" Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this 
prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein, for the 
time is at hand." And in proportion as we read and hear and keep, 
in that ratio will our blessing come. 

FIFTH THE INTERNAL DIVISIONS. 

These are not according to books, chapters or verses, but 
according to times, seasons, periods, or dispensations. Solomon 
writes, " There is a time for everything and a purpose for every- 
thing under heaven." If we dislocate or " wrest " Scripture from its 



24 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

peculiar time and place, we not only do injustice to God's Word, but 
we become confused in its interpretation. In order to study and 
teach intelligently we must "rightly divide the Word of Truth." 

There is an old Latin proverb, " Distinguite tempora-et concorda- 
bunt Scripturce" that is, " Distinguish the periods, and the Scriptures 
will harmonize." W r e must see the difference between the dispensa- 
tion of law and the dispensation of grace ; between the earthly 
blessings in the Old Testament and the spiritual blessings of the 
New. The Israel of God is one thing, and the Church of God is 
quite another thing. All Scripture is written to or for the Jew, to or 
for the Gentile, to or for the church. (I Cor. x: 32.) 

We must distinguish between the Lord's coming for His saints 
and His subsequently appearing with them ; between the first resur- 
rection and the second ; and between the judgment of believers for 
rewards, and that of unbelievers for punishment. With the promise 
that the Holy Ghost " will show us things to come," we can see the 
future as vividly as the past, and can behold the Son of Man coming 
in glory as we have seen Him coming in humiliation. Let the stu- 
dent of God's Word locate in each dispensation — past, present; and 
future — such portions of Scripture as belong to it ; then will the 
revealed Word harmonize, instead of appearing sealed, and the 
word of prophecy will become more sure, " whereunto ye do well 
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place." 
(II. Pet. i: 19.) 

SIXTH THE TEACHER. 

This is the Holy Ghost. (John xiv: 26 ; I John ii: 27 ; I Cor. 
ii: 13.) He who wrote the Word is most competent to teach it. 
The mere acquisition of Scriptural knowledge does not denote 
growth in the wisdom of God. We may learn the geography and 
chronology of the Bible and may have its historical parts on our 
tongue's end, and yet be wholly ignorant of its underlying spiritual 
principles. Man can teach much that is on the surface, but only the 
Holy Ghost can teach the deep hidden things of God. Spurgeon 
says, "Do not be satisfied with the surface investigation of the 
Scripture, but open a shaft and dig deep for its hidden truth." And 
this the Great Teacher will help us to do, for it is His special province 
"to search all things, yea the deep things of God." 

As we begin to explore we find strata below strata. The first is 
historical. Any one would say the Bible was a history of something. 
The second is practicaiand moral, that is, good moral lessons may 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 25 

be adduced from these histories. The third strata is spiritual. 
This must be reached before we can find salvation for ourselves or 
teach it to others. Below this is the typical and the dispensational, 
which we have 'before alluded to. The Holy Spirit enables us to 
search these important truths, and to digest the strong meat of the 
Word. Whether we look into these p^ges for ourselves or for our 
scholars, let us invoke the aid of the Divine Spirit in its interpre- 
tation, and cry out as did the Psalmist: " Open thou mine eyes that 
I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." 

Holy Ghost with light divine, 
Shine into this heart of mine. 

In conclusion, let us, students and teachers, " read, mark, learn, 
and inwardly digest" these sacred oracles, that every page may 
become " a lamp unto our feet, and a light unto our path." Let us 
remember that we are handling God's own word and dealing with 
immortal souls. And when the truth has been incorporated in our 
hearts, then can each teacher say to his class, " Come ye children, 
hearken unto me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord." Re- 
member, too, that this is the only book that will be used in the world 
to come. In heaven, for the joy and comfort of the redeemed, and 
in hell, for the judgment and condemnation of the lost. It is a 
Wonderful Book. It is an Eternal Book. As we look around us we 
see decay, destruction, ruin and death stamped upon everything. 
These beautiful flowers (pointing to the large floral display) will 
fade, these grasses will wither, this lovely earth which we delight to 
inhabit will soon " melt with fervent heat," and " the heavens shall 
be rolled together as a scroll," but the Word of God, as He gave it, 
will endure forever. Yes, " Heaven and earth shall pass away,' but 
Thy Word, O God, will never pass away." 



THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. 



BY REV. WM. W. CLARK. 



God has revealed Himself to us in two ways: In His works and 
in His Word. In the former we have the demonstration of His 
power, and in the latter the revelation of His truth. Two books are 
before us, the book of Nature and the Bible. The Psalmist says of 



26 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

the former: " The heavens declare the glory of God and the firma- 
ment showeth His handiwork ;" and also of the latter, " Thou hast 
magnified Thy word above all Thy name." By his constant refer- 
ence to these two themes he indicates that we are to combine these 
two volumes together — the volume of God s works and of His word 
— and to illustrate one by the other. 

How beautiful is the book of nature, with its illuminated pages, 
but yet more beautiful is the Bible, and more enduring. " Heaven 
and earth will pass away, but Thy word, O Lord, will never pass 
away." 

The proper study of both volumes will lead to the conviction 
that " God is and that He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek 
Him." Lord Bacon said, " One must enter into the kingdom of the 
natural sciences as one enters into the kingdom of heaven, like a little 
child ;" that is, we are not to bring any preconceived notions to the 
study of either book, but in the spirit of an humble child of God we 
are to search each for what is contained therein. And when stu- 
dents draw from the Scriptures what they have already put in, their 
object in investigation is to force the Bible to corroborate their own 
views. Such students are eisegetes and not exegetes. We should 
study the Scriptures, not to find what we want the Bible to say, but 
to find what it does say — not bringing our doubts but our faith, and 
saying, " Lord, I believe." " Speak, for thy servant heareth." 

Bowing, then, in submission to the Divine Author, we take up 
His volume of Revelation. " Bible " means scroll or book. " The " 
signifies the book of books. " Holy " means sanctified, set apart. 
" The Holy Bible "—the only one true book, sanctified by God and 
set apart for the use of His children. 

The book, then, is ours, an inheritance bequeathed by a will 
and testament. But on opening it we find not one testament, but 
two — the Old and the New. 

I. THE DIFFERENCES. 

These are very marked. The aim and scope of each testament 
is peculiar to itself. The New is not the sequel or appendix of the 
Old. In a certain way the Old is put away to make room for the 
New. The latter is not another covenant, it is a new one and a bet- 
ter one (Heb. vii: 22 ; viii: 6, 1. c.) " He is the mediator of a better 
covenant which was established upon better promises." The old 
was good, but the new is better. (Heb. vii: 19.) " For the law made 



NOTES FOR BIELE READINGS. 2J 

nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did, by the 
which we draw nigh to God." 

" So near — so very near to God, 

Nearer I cannot be; 
For in the person of His Son 

I am as near as He." 

God's first covenant failed, because of the weakness of human 
flesh, but now we have a different and a better one. (Rom. viii: 3; 
Heb. viii: 7-13.) 

It is important to understand the difference between the two 
covenants, to understand the contrasts as well as the harmony. The 
old reveals a covenant of law, the new a testament of grace. The 
old demands something of man, the new presents the free gift of 
God. The former says, " Do this ;" the latter says, " It is done." 
One commands, saying, " Thou shalt " and " Thou shalt not." The 
other entreats, saying, " I beseech you. " 

.The old demands holiness, and the new gives holiness. In the 
Old Testament, God is still and man acts — in the New, man is still 
and God acts. Christ and Israel is the theme of the Old, Christ 
and the Church is the theme of the New. 

In the study of the Scriptures the faculty of discrimination 
needs to be constantly employed. The Bible contains nothing but 
truth, but truth misapplied becomes error. Many seem to think 
they can take a passage from any part of the Bible and apply it to 
any other part, without regarding the time or circumstances of its 
connection. This is unwise and confusing. 

In John i: 17 is a discriminating verse, giving the key of both 
testaments : " The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth 
came by Jesus Christ." The law represents the Jewish dispensation; 
grace and truth, the Christian dispensation. That which was holy 
under the law is not holy now. Actions change according to the 
dispensation. The code of Calvary is far different from the code of 
Sinai. Under the latter the Jew was told to avenge himself, under 
the former the Christian is told to avenge not. 

" Everything is beautiful in its season " (Eccl. iii: 1-11), but if 
divine truth is taken out of its time and place, it becomes serious 
error. Peter speaks of " the unlearned and unstable wresting the 
Scriptures to their own destruction " (II Pet. iii: 16). May we never 
be guilty of this, but may we take God's Word in His order and study 
it in the light of the context. 
2 



28 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

The Blessings are Different. — In the Old Testament they 
are of an earthly character ; in the New they are spiritual and 
heavenly. Abraham and his seed were promised the land for their 
inheritance (Gen. xiii: 14-17), while Christians are blessed with spir- 
itual blessings in heavenly places (Eph. i: 3). The children of Israel 
were partakers of an earthly calling (Ex. xxxii: 13), while we are 
partakers of an heavenly calling (Heb. iii: 1). The twelve tribes 
were made rich in the land (Num. xxvi:53), but the followers of 
Christ are "rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom" (Jas. ii: 5). 
The people under Joshua were heirs of the soil (Josh, i: 6), but we 
are " heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ " (Rom. viii: 17). It 
is understood that the Jewish believers enjoyed spiritual blessings 
and were saved by faith as well as we, but their calling was pecu- 
liarly of a worldly kind — while the calling of the church is distinctly 
heavenly. Again, the Lord does provide for our temporal wants, 
out the blessings promised us are spiritual. The Jew could claim 
worldly prosperity as a reward for obedience, but the Christian, 
though he may receive temporal blessings, has no right to claim 
them. A great name and nation was promised to Abraham (Gen. 
xii: 1-3), but now the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is a little 
child (Matt, xviii: 2). Riches, honor, power and might, are granted 
to Israel (I Chron. xxix: 12), but humility and service is the portion 
of the Christian (John xiii:i4— 16). 

The Actions are Different. — The Jew was commanded to 
smite and kill (Deut. vii: 1, 2), while the weapons of the Christian 
are not carnal (II Cor. x: 4). Israel was told to take up the sword 
(Josh, xxi: 11, 16), but Peter was told to put up his sword (Matt. 
xxvi:52). The law said, " Eye for eye and tooth for tooth" (Ex. 
xxi: 24, 25), and Christ said "Resist not evil" (Matt, v: 37-39). 
Joshua told his people to utterly destroy their enemies (Josh, vi: 21), 
while Jesus told his people to love their enemies (Matt. v:44). Eli- 
jah commanded fire from heaven which consumed the king's soldiers 
(II Kings i: 10), but when James and John wanted to do the same 
thing to the Lord's enemies, Jesus rebuked them (Luke ix: 54-56). 
The times had changed, the old economy was at an end. A new, a 
better, and a different dispensation had begun. 

The Worship is Different. — In the old economy God's people 
"had a particular place of worship and one way of approaching Jeho- 
vah through one priesthood (Ex. xxviii: 1). But in the present age 
all believers are priests (Rev. i: 6), and they may worship the Lord 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 29 

in any place. Only one man had access to the holy of holies in the 
old dispensation (Lev. XVK2-17), but now all believers have bold- 
ness to enter within the veil (Heb. x: 19-22). Formerly, the priestly 
tribe of Levi alone conld serve God in the Tabernacle (Num. iii: 5- 
ic). " But now, in Christ Jesus, ye who were afar off are made nigh 
by the blood of Christ. For he hath broken down the middle wall 
of partition" (Eph. ii: 13, 14). Surely Jesus is the mediator of a 
better covenant which was established upon better promises (Heb 
viii: 6 1. c). 

II. THE HARMONY. 

The testaments are two, but the book is one and inseparable. 
The Bible is like a two-ply carpet. On both sides the figure is the 
same, but the colors are different. If one attempts to unravel and 
separate these figures no carpet will be left. So also, the two Testa- 
ments are so interwoven that they cannot be separated. We cannot 
understand either without the other. The Old is typical and pro- 
phetical of the New. The New is based upon the Old, having 309 
direct quotations and 528 allusions. The Old Testament was the 
Saviour's Bible, and it ill becomes any one to disparage its teachings. 
There is an ancient saying ; 

The New is in the Old contained, 
The Old is by the New explained. 

Luther said the New Testament is enfolded in the Old, and the 
Old Testament is unfolded in the New. All New Testament truth 
is based upon the Old, its histories, its doctrines, and its prophecies. 
Each testament is a lexicon — a glossary, a commentary for the other. 
Like that secret writing which is not visible until held before the fire, 
so many beautiful and glorious truths within each testament are hid- 
den from the reader, until brought into the light and glow of the 
other testament, and then they appear clear, distinct, and intelligible. 

St. Augustine must have had this in mind when he wrote 

" In Novo Testamento patet 
Quce in Vetere latet." 

In the New Testament are revealed those things that are hidden 
in the Old. It is a delightful discovery to find some bright New 
Testament truth wrapped up in some ordinance and ceremony of 
Old Testament times, thus witnessing to the harmony of both. 
Swinnock says : " In the Old Testament the Gospel ran as a river 
under ground, but in the New Testament it bursts forth and shews 
itself, refreshing us with its healing streams." 



30 NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 

Compare the law with the Gospel, Moses the giver of the law 
with Christ the fulfiller ; compare the first Adam with the second, 
the marriage in Eden with the marriage in heaven. David the 
Shepherd of Israel, with Jesus the Great Shepherd ; and the trans- 
lations of Enoch and Elijah with the translation of the saints. 

The more the two testaments are compared, the better will each 
be understood, and their unity established. Bring the light of the 
Old to bear upon the New, and let the beauty of the New stream 
through the Old, and your Bible will be to you more than ever the 
Word and Work of God. 

III. THE OLDEST AND THE NEWEST. 

It is an interesting study to compare and contrast Genesis the 
first of the Old with Revelation, the last of the New. The former is 
the book of the beginnings, the latter the book of the endings. 
Gen. (i: i) describes the old heavens and old earth. Rev. (xxi: i) 
describes the new heavens and new earth. In Gen. (i:5), the day 
and night are formed, and two great lights appear, the sun and 
moon (i: 16). In Rev. (xxii: 5), " there shall be no night there," 
and (xxi: 23), they shall not need the light of the sun or moon, for 
the Lamb is the light thereof. Gen. (ii : 8) opens with an earthly 
garden, Rev. (xxi: 10) closes with a heavenly city. In the first book, 
a river flows out of Eden (ii: 10); in the last book, the river of the 
water of life flows out of the throne of God (xxii: 1). Moses writes 
of the- tree of life in the paradise of Eden (iii: 22). John writes of 
the tree of life in the paradise of God (ii: 7). In Gen. (iii: 14), the 
first curse is pronounced ; in Rev. (xxii: 3), there will be no more 
curse. In Gen. (iii: 16), sorrow and suffering are entailed and death 
is pronounced (ii: 17), but in Rev. (xxi: 4) there will be no more 
death, sorrow, or pain. The marriage of the first Adam (ii: 22, 23), 
is typical of the marriage of the second Adam (xix: 7-9). In Gen. 
(vii: 1) is the first Gospel invitation, "Come thou ;" in Rev. (xxii: 
17) is the last Gospel invitation, " Let him that is athirst come, and 
whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." 

In Genesis the promises are made ; in Revelation they are ful- 
filled. In Genesis is the seedtime ; in Revelation is the harvest. The 
oldest portrays Paradise lost ; the newest, Paradise regained. 

Thus are these two great covenants not only contrastive, but 
harmonious, and thus is the first of the old linked with the last of 
the new, and "what God hath joined together let no man put 
asunder." 



(ttofas for Q5i6fe (JUabing*. 



QutVint QfttBfe (ReaMn<je* 



THE BIBLE: HOW TO USE IT. 
i. Confidently. Heb. iv.12. 



Skillfully. Neh. viii:8. 
Discriminately. II Tim. ii : 1 5. 
Thoughtfully. Ps. lxxxv:S. 
Unselfishly. II Cor. ii: 1 7. 
Constantly. Acts xx:27. 
Intelligently. II Tim. iii : 1 7. 
Independently. I Cor. ii:'-2. 
Boldly. Acts xviii:28. 
Consistently. Isa. lv:ii. 

Daniel Sloan. 



THE BIBLE: CHARACTERISTICS 
OF. 
Its value. Ps. xix:io. 
Its power. Luke i:37 (R. V.) 
Its contents. II Tim. iii: 16. 
Its unity. John v:3o, t 
Its author. II Pet. i:2i. 
Its authority. Josh. xxiii:i4. 
Its efficiency. Ps. xix:7-9. 
Its preciousness. Jer. xv:i6. 
Its sufficiency. Luke xvi:2<^3l. 
Its inspiration. II Tim. iii:i6. 
Its permanency. I Pet. i : 2 5 , 

Daniel Sloan. 



HOW TO MARK THE BIBLE. 

1. Get the Bible — best made, and 
bound to last for years. 

2. Get six colors of inks, crimson, 
green, violet, orange, blue, black, in small 
round bottles, fitting the bottles into a 
block of wood. 

3. Get Spencerian bank pens, No. 9, 
and ordinary penholders. 



5. Mark only the part of the verse 
that impresses you. 

6. Mark daily as you read or think of 
verses. 

7. Mark passages as follows: 
Crimson — That part referring to 

salvation, its terms and results. 

Green — That part referring to sin, 
its effects and judgment. 

Violet — That part referring to sec- 
ond coming, rewards and gen- 
eral promises. 

Orange — That part referring to 
person and work of the Holy 
Ghost. 

Blue. Words and passages you 
wish to emphasize. 

Black— Parts you wish to notice 
not otherwise classified. 

8. Draw two lines under the portion 
you mark. 

9. Make marginal notes and refer- 
ences as you mark. 

io. Determine carefully the color of 
ink to use before marking. 

Daniel Sloan. 



BENEFITS OF BIBLE MARKING. 

1. It gets one familiar with the Bible 
in general. 

2. It makes one familiar with special 
texts for use. 

3. It strengthens one's memory of 
Bible knowledge. 

4. It enables one to find many good 
things that would otherwise be unnoticed. 

4. Get a 12-inch bookkeeper's and ar*| 5. It causes one to think more closely 
tist's flexible ruler. ! than in random and ordinary thinking. 

3 (33) 



34 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



6. It shows where you have studied, 
and where not. 

7. It carries a meaning as full as lines 
®f marginal notes would. 

&, It enables you as you mark a verse 
folly to get a clear understanding of it. 

9. It permits one to carry in his Bible 
his spiritual history and travel. 

io. It enables you by a glance of the 
eye after marking to gather the cream of 
the page to the surface in an instant. 
Daniel Sloan. 



SUGGESTIONS TO YOUNG CHRIS. 

TIANS BEGINNING THE 

STUDY OF THE BIBLE. 

1. Remember it is God's word to you, 
Read it as you would a letter from your 
dearest friend. John xv:i5. 

2. Remember you are to live by faith 
and not by feeling; so study it daily 
whether you feel like it or not. Rom. 
1:16-17. 

3. Remember that the light God gives 
is not intended to be unused. So then 
use everything He gives you to the far- 
thest reaching extent. Matt. x:27. 

4. Remember there are things hard to 
understand in the Bible. When you find 
such pass them by and go on until you 
come to something your soul relishes. 
II Peter iii:i6. 

5. Remember God don't want to de- 
velop you in Bible knowledge, but he 
does want to fashion you into the likeness 
of Him; so try to live the truth you get 
rather than simply store it. II Cor. iii, 18. 

6. Remember the word of God effec- 
tually works transformation in those that 
believe it while studying it; so seek to 
study it from the faith side rather than 
from the intellectual. I Thess. ii: 13- 

7. Remember your soul needs the 
word of God as much as youi body needs 
nourishment; so make habitual times for 
study. When that time comes around 
dismiss all engagements and business af- 



fairs as punctually as you do for your 
daily meals. Matt. iv:4. 

Daniel Sloan. 



"The Scripture does nothing of itself — 
it is not the book that educates, but God 
in it — therefore we must read it thought- 
fully, humbly, with prayer, as before 
God, in dependence upon the help of the 
Holy Spirit. Dove your Bible; do not 
think of it as a burden, but as a pleas- 
ure. Treat it as you would a letter from 
a distant friend, to whom you owe every- 
thing." Vaughan. 

HOW TO USE THE BIBLE. 

1. Have a Bible, your own, with ref- 
erences. 

2. A Blank book. 

3. A Concordance. 

4. A Scripture treasury. 

5. A Bible dictionary. 

6. Carry a Bible. 

7. Mark your Bible. 

8. Prize it. 

9. Know it. 

10. Don't read any book that will not en- 
enable you to know The Book. Venerate it. 
1. — in prayer. 
Preparation of the heart. Ezra vii:io. 
Heart work. God deals with the heart. 
Rom. v:i-5. Of the deepest importance. 

1. Justified. 

2. Peace. 

3. Access. 

4. Standing in grace. 

5. Rejoicing in hope. 

6. Glorying in tribulation. 

7. Not ashamed. 

'Because the love of God should abide" 
in the heart. 

Slow of heart. Luke xxiv:25 

Obedience from the heart. Rom. vi:i7. 

Rejoicing of mine heart. Jer. xv:i6. 

Thy Word hid in mine heart, Ps. 
cxixii. 

Heart burn. Luke xxiv:32. 

A good prayer, Ps. cxix:i8. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



35 



The Bible compared to the Temple — 
i. Outer court, 
(i) Grand outline, 

2. Holy place, 

(2) Historical intent. 

3. Most holy place. 

(3) Divine teaching. 

We need to be much in the most holy 

place with God. It is here where sweet 

things are made known. Much with the 

Lord. Luke xxiv:i4, 25, 29, 32, 44, 45. 

11. — OBJECT. 

What are you after? Important. John 
xvii:i7 and viii:32. 

God had an object in giving the Book. 
What object have you in the use of it? 

The central figure is Jesus Christ. 
The central object is redemption. 

There is a treasure to be found. Search 
for knowledge, life, growth, worship, 
service. 

Paul. That I may know Him. Phil. 
iii:io; Heb. x:7; Rev. xix:io; John v:39; 
Luke xxiv:27, 44. 

III. — DEPENDENCE ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

Author. II Tim. iii:i6; II Pet. i:20,2i. 

Teacher. John xiv:26; John xvi:i3. 
(Note I Cor. ii:i4.) 

What a precious gift the Holy Spirit. 
What is He? What is He for? 

Key. The Word of God, how sweet it 
is to me. It is good to my soul. I un 
derstand it better, for realizing that its 
author is immediately and always present 
when I read. 

If full of the Holy Spirit? What a dif- 
ferent Book! I Cor ii:io-i6. 

If full of the Holy Spirit? What un- 
folding of hidden treasures. Rev. i:io. 

If full of the Holy Spirit? What at- 
tainment in knowledge of God. Col. 
i:9, 10. 

If full of the Holy Spirit? What pow- 
erful testimony for Jesus. John iv.29, 
41. 42. 

IV. — ORDER. 

i. Reverently. 



2. Prayerfully. 

3. Purposely. 

4. Dependently. 

5. Personally (me, my). 

6. Regularly (daily reading). 

7. Consecutively. 

8. Systematically. 

9. Perseveringly. 

If language means anything, it means 
that if we are to come to a full knowl- 
edge of the Word of God, it will be by 
much labor. 

Study. II Tim. ii : 15. 

Seaich. John v:39 (I Pet. i:io, 11); 
Jer. xxix:i3; See Acts xvii:ii. 

Meditate. Not only know the charac- 
ter of the tree, but shake every bough, 
examine every leaf. Luther. Josh. i:8; 
Ps. i:2, 3. 

It will never do to pray while we close 
our eyes in sleepy indolence. This neg- 
ative Christianity is the curse of the day. 
Oh, . that the whole church of God were 
fully aroused to this matter of real wot, 
in Bible study. 

V.— OBEDIENTLY. 

Josh. i:8; Lukeyi:^; John vii:i7; Hos, 
\i:3; John viii:3i, 32; James i : 2 5 ; Ezra 
vii:io. Result, II Cor. iii: 18. How short 
we come of this. 

If you want to know Jesus Christ — 
Search the Scriptures. Heb. x:7. 

If you want to enjoy abiding com- 
munion with Christ — Search the Scrip- 
tures. John v:39. 

If you want your faith to become equal 
to all things possible — Search the Scrip- 
tures. Rom. x:i7. 

If you want to become bold and cour- 
ageous witnesses for Jesus — Search the 
Scriptures. Acts iv:i3. 

If you want to know the liberty of the 
children of God — Search the Scriptures. 
John viii:32. 

If you want to prosper in all things — ■ 
Search the Scriptures. Jos. i:8; Ps i:2, 3. 

If you want to know the joy of sancti- 



36 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



fication — Search the Scriptures. John 
17:17. 

If you want to be abundant in winning 
souls — Search the Scriptures. Ps cxxvi:6. 

The immutability of God's Word. For- 
ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in 
heaven. Ps. cxix:S9. 

Praise the Lord, for Thou hast mag- 
nified Thy Word above all Thy name. 
Ps. cxxxviii:2. 

Bible in two words: Christ Jesus. 

"Only search with an humble spirit, 
ask in continual prayer, seek with purity 
of life, knock with perpetual persever- 
ance, and cry to the good spirit of Christ, 
the Comforter; and surely to every such 
asker it shall be given. Such searchers 
must needs find; to them it will be 
opened. Christ Himself will open the 
sense of Scripture, not to the proud or the 
wise of the world, but to the lowly and 
contrite in heart; for He hath the key of 
David, who opens and no man shuts, and 
who shuts and no man opens. Finally, 
brethren, 'Search the Scriptures.'" 

Abp. Parker. 



I gives great peace, v. 165. It gives re- 
Ijoicing of heart, v. ill, 1. c. It gives 
understanding, v. 104, 1. c. It gives 
light, v. 130, f c. It gives support in 
affliction, v. 92. 

RESULTS. 

Blessed — ourselves, v. 2, 1. c. Safe— 
ourselves, v. 114. 117. Rejoice other 



GLEANINGS FROM THE CXIXth 
PSALM. 

god's word is 
A lamp, v. 105, f. c. A light, v. 105, 1. 
c. A counselor, v. 24, 1. c. Wonder- 
ful, v. 129. Our heritage, v. Ill, f. c. 
Exceeding broad, v. 96. The Truth, v. 
142 f. c. Better than silver, v. 72. Bet- 
ter than gold, v. 127. Sweeter than 
honey, v. 103. Good, v. 39, 1. c. Right- 
eous, v. 138. Settled, v. S9. Very pure, 
v. 140. A'ery faithful, v. 138. Right on 
all subjects, v. 12S. From everlasting, v. 
160. To everlasting, v. 152. 

POWER OF GOD'S WORD. 

It quickens, v. 25. It cleanses, v. 9. 
It keeps clean, v. 1. It keeps from sin, 
v. 11. It strengthens, v. 28. It com- 
forts, v. 50. It gives liberty, v, 45. It 



Christians, 



■4. Fellowship with 



Christ's people, v. 63. Enjoy God's 
presence and smile, v. 135. Long for the 
salvation of sinners, vs. 136, 158. 

WE ARE COMMANDED TO 

Believe in it, v. 66, 1. c. Love it, v. 47. 
Love it exceedingly, v. 167, 1.. c. Search 
it, v. 94, 1. c. Keep it diligently, v. 4. 
Keep it continually, v. 44. Consider 
it, v. 95 1. c. Trust in it, v. 42, 1. c. 
Hope in it, v. 43, 1 c. Never forget it, 
v. 176, 1. c Walk in its precepts, v. 59. 
Hide it in the heart, v. 11. Meditate on 
it, v. 15. Observe it with the whole 
heart, v. 34. Keep it with the whole 
heart, v. 69, 1. c. Delight in it, v. 47. 
Learn it, v. 73, 1. c. Talk of it, v. 27, 1. 
c. Declare it to others, v. 13. Obey it 
at once, v. 6n. Never be ashamed of it, 
v. 46. Rejoice in it, v. 14. Unto the 
end, v. IT2. 

TIME FOR MEDITATION ON IT. 

In themorning, v. 147. In the evening, 
v. 148. At midnight, v. 62. All day, 
v. 97. All night, v. 55. 

GOD WILL 
Open the eyes to read aright, v. 18. 
Teach it to us, v. 26 1. c. Make us un- 
derstand it, v. 27, 1. c. Enlarge our 
hearts to keep it, v. 32. 

Katie A. Clarke. 



THE WORD OF GOD. 

1. Maketh wise unto salvation. II 
Tim. iii : 1 5 - 

2. Givethlife. John vi 163; I Pet. i 123. 

3. Sanctifies. Johnxvii:i7. 



I Cor. ii : 1 3 ; I Thess. ii : 13 ; John xvii: 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



37 



17; Ps. cxix:i6i; Isa. lvi:2; I Cor. ii : I-+; 
Ps. cxix:iS; Heb. iv.2; I Thess. ii:i3; 
Ps. cxix:66; Acts xviirti; James i:2i; 
Mark \- i i : 1 3 ; Luke v:5; Deut. xvii:iS, 19; 
John v. 39; Ps. i:2; John xv.io; Ps. xix: 
10; Ps. cxix:i49; Micah ii : y. 

R. A. ORR. 

THE WORD. 

Jesus Christ, the Living Word. John 
1:1-5, 14. 

The Bible, the Written Word: Luke 
xi:28; Jas. i:22; Ps. cxix:ioi, 25, 38. 

Christ's name — the Word. The Son, 
or Word, is the only one who speaks or 
has spoken of the Trinity. John v:37. 

The words he speaks are: — 

Creative. Gen. i; Ps. xxxiii:6; John 

i:3. 

Upholding. Heb. i:3. 

Regenerating. Acts xi:i4; I Pet. i.23; 
Jas. i : 1 S ; Ps. xix:7. 

Sanctifying. John xv:3; xvii:7; Eph. 
v.2^>. 27. 

[Question. How far arc we responsi- 
ble for the regeneration of souls? An- 
swer. Faithfully and in love to sow the 
seed, the Word of God.] 

The Written Word corresponds with 
the character of the Living Word. 

1. He is Truth. John xiv:6. His Word 
is Truth. John xvii:i7; Ps. cxix:l5l. 

2. He is Life. John xiv:6; i;4 ; His 
Words are Life. John vi.63: Phil ii:i6. 

3. He is Gracious. Exod. xxxiv:6; John 
1:14. His Words are Gracious. Luke 
iv:22; Ps. xlv:2; Acts xiv:3 Word of 
His Grace. 

4. He is Merciful. Exod. xxxiv:6; 
Jer. iij:i2. His Words are Merciful. 
Ps. lxxxv.io. 

5. He is Precious. I Pet ii : — . Highly 
valued. much esteemed. His Words are 
Precious. Ps. xix, :o, 11. 

6. He is Pure. I John iii : 3 . Free 
from mixture, without spot or blemish. 
His Word is Pure. Ps. xii:6; cxix:i40. 



7. He is Holy. I Pet. i: 1 5, 16; Rev. 

iv:3. Whole, entire, perfect, in a moral 
sense. His Word is Holy. Rom. vii: 1 2. 
'Holy Scriptures." 

The Power of the Word. Heb. iv:i2. 

The Certainty of the Word.- Prov. 
xxii:i8-2r. 

The Hope of the Word. Ps. cxix:8i. 

The Eternity of the Word. Ps. cxix:89. 

Settled in the Heavens. I Pet. i:25. 
Endureth forever. Heaven and earth 
shall pass away, but My words shall not 
pass away. Matt. xxiv:25. 

Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 



WHAT GOD'S WORD IS ABLE 
TO DO. 

1. Break and burn the false. Jer. 
xxiii:29. 

2. Build up with the true. Acts xx:32. 

3. Teach how to select material. II 
Tim. iii : 1 5 - 

4. Make nice distinctions. Heb. iv:i2. 

5. Save the best of all. Jas. i:2i. 

George E. Henry. 



SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY TO THE 

DIVINE AUTHORITY OF THE 

OLD TESTAMENT. 

The following passages bearing upon 
this subject have been collated from the 
Old and New Testaments. There are 
others of equal clearness and force. 

I. — JEWISH DIVISION 

of the whole of the Old Testament into 
the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms. 

1. The Law. "The Law of the Lord." 
Lukeii:39. "The Law of God." Rom. 
vii:25; viii:7. 

2. The Prophets. "God showed by 
the mouth of His prophets." Acts iii: 
iS, 21. "His prophets," Rom. i:2; Eph. 
ii:20. "Spoke in the name of the Lord.'* 
Jas. v.io. "God spake to the fathers by 
the prophets." Heb. i:i. 

3. The Psalms. "He saith also in an- 



38 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



other Psalm." Acts xiii:35. "All things 
must be fulfilled which were written in 
the Psalms." Luke xxiv:44. "David said 
by the Holy Ghost." Mark xii 136; Acts 
i::6. 

II. — SEPARATE BOOKS. 

Genesis. "God spake." Acts vii:6; cp. 
Gen. xv.13, 16. 

Exodus . ' ' The Holy Ghost this signify- 
ing." Heb. ix:g; cp.Ex. xxxiio. 

Leviticus. "The Word of God." cp.xx: 

9 and Mark vii: 10-13. Ch. xiv:22 quoted 

as "the law of the Lord," in Luke ii:24. 

As God hath said." Lev. xxvi-.i:; cp. II 

Cor. vi: 6. 

Numbers. "What the Lord hath said." 
xxiv:i7. 

Deuteronomy, "The Word of God," 
cp. v:i6 and Eph. vi:i3. See also ch. 
xxxii: 35, 36, and cp. " saith the Lord." 
Heb. x: 30. See also Rom. xiKio,. 

Joshua. "Thus saith the Lord." vii:i3. 

. I Samuel. "The Word of God." I Sam. 
ix:27. 

II Samuel. "Thus saith the Lord." II 
Sam. vii:8. 

I Kings. Cp. xix:io, 18, with "the 
answer of God." Rom. xi:4. See also 
"the Lord saith." xxii:i4. 

I Chronicles. Cp. xxviii:20, with Heb. 
xiii : 5. 

II Chronicles. "His Word." x:i5. 
Psalms. Ps. lxxxii quoted as "the Word 

of God," in John x:35. Seealso "I have 
said." Ps. lxxxii:6. Cp. Ps. xcv:7, and 
• "As the Holy Ghost saith." Heb. iii:7; 
also Ps. xcvii, with Heb. iv:3. 

Proverbs. Quoted as Scripture. John 
ix:3i. 

Ecclesiastices. See James iv:5. 

Isaiah. "As God hath said." lii:n. 
Cp. II Cor. vi:i7. See also "saith the 
Lord." xxii:i4. 

Jeremiah. "Saith the Lord" occurs 
14 times. Cp. xxxr.31, 34, with Heb 
viii:8, 9. 

Lamentations. "His-Word." ii : 1 7- 



Ezekiel. "I the Lord have said." 
xxi:i7. 

Daniel. "The Scripture of truth." 
x:2i. Cp. "All Scripture." II Tim. iii: 
16. 

Hosea. "The Word of the Lord." i:2. 

Joel. "The Word of the Lord." i:i. 

Amos. "Saith the Lord." H:ii. 

Obadiah. "Thus saith the Lord." i:i. 

Jonah. "Saith the Lord." iv.io. 

Micah. "The Lord saith." vi:i. 

Nahum. "Saith the Lord." 11:13; iii:5. 

Habakkuk. "The Lord saith." ii:2. 

Zephaniah. "Saith the Lord." iii:8. 

Haggai. "Saith the Lord." 1:9, 13. 

Zechariah. "The Word of the Lord." 
iv:6. 

Malachi. "Saith the Lord." i:2. 

"Holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost." II Pet. i.21. 

A FAMILIAR KNOWLEDGE OF 
THE SCRIPTURES AS A QUAL- 
IFICATION FOR WORK 
AMONG INQUIRERS. 

1. Because they " thoroughly furnish" 
us for our work, and enable us to " teach 
in all wisdom." II Tim. iii : 1 7 ; Col. iii: 16. 

2. They are they that testify of Christ. 
Jno. v: 39; Luke xxiv: 27. 

3. They give light and understanding 
to the darkest minds of sinners. Ps. cxix: 
130; II Cor. iv. 4, 6. 

4. They make wise unto salvation, and 
are able to save our souls. I Tim. iii: 15; 
Jas. i: 21. 

5. They are the fire, hammer, and sword 
of God to melt, break and pierce the hearts 
of sinners; revealing sin and producing 
conviction and conversion. Jer. xxiii: 29; 
Eph. vi: 17; Heb. iv: 12; Acts ii: 37; 
vii: 54- 

6. They are used of the Holy Ghost in 
the work of regeneration. Jno. iii: 5; Jas. 
i: 18. 

7. They produce faith in them that 
hear. Jno. xx: 31; Rom. x: 17. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



39 



8. They are used of the Holy Spirit 
for our sanctification. Tno. xvii: 17; Eph. 
v: 26. 

Words and Weapons. 



THE STUDY OF THE WORD. 

1. The Spirit— that of a child— The 
written word is like the Word made flesh, 
divine and human, and it must be studied 
in the light of the Divine Spirit in the 
human. God alone can show God. Luke 
xii: 22, 28; I Cor. ix: 10; Ps. cxix: 18; 
Amos iv: 13; John i, 1-3; John i: 14; 
John i: iS; John iii: 16-1S. 

2. The method of study is the induc- 
tive — Eccl. iii: n; Ps. xl: 5; Ps. xix: 
1-6; I Cor. x: 11; Roman v: 12-19; Eph. 
v: 32; Gal. iv: 21-31; I Pet. iii: 21; Gen. 
i: 3; II Cor. iv: 6. 

3. The instruments , means, helps — A 
reference Bible; a text book; a Bible dic- 
tionary; a concordance; a translation; an 
Englishman's Greek concordance; a com- 
mentary. 

4. The resu/t of study — Life, love, 
worship, likeness — John xvii: 3; John i: 
1-4; i. John iv: 7, S; Rom. xi:32, 36; Rom. 
xii: 1,2; John iv: 20, 24; II Cor. iii: 18. 

Rev. W. J. Erdman. 



Quick, powerful, prevailing, Heb. iv: 
12; Ps. cxlvii: 1 5 r Luke iv: 32; Isa. Iv: 
11. 

A fire and a hammer, burning and 
breaking, Jer. xx: 9; xxiii: 29; Luke xxiv: 
32. 

How it is not to be used, II Cor. iv. 2; 
ii; 17. 

The Exalted Saviour, Rev. xix: 13. 

What are you doing with the word of 
God? 

'* Let the word of Christ dwell in you 
richly." "Blessed are they that hear the 
word of God and keep it." 

J. H. 



THE WORD OF GOD. 

"A pillar of cloud by day, a pillar of 
fire by night." 

True from the beginning, Ps. cxix: 160. 

Worlds framed by it, Heb. xi: 3; Ps. 
xxxiii: 6. 

Firmly established, Ps. cxix: S9. 

Shall stand forever, Isa. xl: 8. 

Not to be despised, Prov. xiii: 13; Isa. v: 
24. 

Man is to live by it, Deut. viii: 3; Matt, 
iv: 4. 

Pure, therefore a purifier, Prov. xxx: 5; 
Ps. cxix, ix; John xv:3. 

Source of strength, I Johnii: 14. 

Not bound, II Tim. ii: 9. 



"THY WORD." 

THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE WORD 
OF GOD. 

Deut. iv: i-ic. 

Deut. xii: 32. 

Joshua i: 8. 

Proverbs xxx: 5, 6. 

John xii: 4S-50. 

Heb. i: 1-3. 

Heb. ii: 1-4. 

Rev. i: 1-3. 

Rev. xx : 12. 

Rev. xxii: 18, 19. 

" Take heed what ye hear." Mark iv: 

2 4- 

" Take heed how ye hear." Luke viii: 
12. 

"To the law and to the testimony; if 
they speak not according to this word, it 
is because there is no light in them." 
Isa. viii: 20. 



BLESSINGS PROMISED TO THOSE 

WHO "HEARKEN TO DO " 

HIS WORD. 

Ex. xv : 26. 
Lev. xxvi: 3-; 3. 
Deut. vi: 1 3. 
Deut. vii: 11-15. 
Deut. xi: 13-15. 
•Deut. xi: 22-25. 



4o 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Deut. xxviii, 
Rev. i: 3. 
Rev. xxii: 7. 



1-4. 



JUDGMENTS TO ALL WHO DES 
PISE AND NEGLECT IT. 

Lev. xxvi: 14-40. 

Deut. xxviii: 15-68. 

II Kings xxii: 13. 

II Chron. xxxvi: 15, 16. 

Prov. i: 24-32. 

Isa. lxv: 12. 

Isa. lxvi: 4. 

Rom. iii: 11, 12, 16. 

II Thess. i: 7-9. 

II Thess. ii: 10-12. 

A Lover of the Word. 



SUMMARY OF CHRIST'S TESTI- 
MONY TO THE BIBLE. 

In his recorded allusions to the Bible, 
our Lord made four references to Genesis, 
three to Exodus, two to Numbers, five to 
Leviticus, four to Deuteronomy — thus 
quoting several times all the books of 
Moses. He also referred to the books of 
Samuel, Kings, Daniel. Hosea, Jonah, 
Zechariah, Malachi, and frequently to 
Isaiah, and the Book of Psalms. He 
asserted the claims of the Bible as a whole, 
under the title of "The Scriptures," and 
"the Law and the Prophets." When we 
consider how brief are the narratives of 
his ministry, yet how numerous are the 
Scripture references they contain, we may 
well be sure that if all had been recorded 
our argument might have been strength- 
ened with numerous additional proofs that 
the Bible was the Saviour's text-book. He 
sanctioned it as a whole, and in detail, 
as a book to be studied, trusted, obeyed; 
as a book peculiar, paramount, Divine. 
Consider how He read it, and stored it in 
His memory, and used it for His own per- 
sonal strength and comfort, in temptation, 
for worship, on the cross. — Consider how, 



having died with it on His lips, He ex- 
pounded it as soon as He returned to life. 
Consider that the glorified body of the 
Lord Jesus, now on the throne of glory, 
has honored our Bible, that it was opened 
and pointed to by the very hand, that it 
was quoted and explained by the very lips 
of Him who is now exalted at the right 
hand of God, a Prince and a Saviour! May 
we not feel satisfied that whatever the 
authority of learned critics, the authority 
of Jesus is greater? May I not turn from 
them to Him? If unable to answer all 
difficulties, is it not enough that my Sav- 
iour used this Bible as Divine? If it was 
good enough for Him, is it not good 
enough for me? — for the rule of my life, 
and for the solace of my sorrow; and 
whenever my mind is disturbed by doubts, 
haunted by fears, oppressed by griefs, 
assailed by temptation — may I not turn 
confidently to my Saviour's Bible, -and 
put an end to the doubt and the murmur 
and the conflict, by saying with my Lord 
— "It is written"? Anon. 



THE BIBLE A MEANS OF PRO- 
MOTING REVIVALS. 

REVEALS. 

Our Condition. Heb. iv:i2. The Word 
of God is living, and active, and sharper 
than any two-edged sword, and piercing 
even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of 
both joints and marrow, and quick to dis- 
cern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 

Christ our Saviour. Gal. iii: 24, So that 
the law hath been our tutor to bring us 
unto Christ, that we might be justified by 
faith. 

I Cor. ii:2. For I determined not to 
know anything among you save Jesus 
Christ, and Him crucified. 

PROMOTES CHANGE OF HEART. 

Converting. Ps: xix:7. The law of the 
Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the 
testimony of the Lord is sure, making 
wise the simple. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



41 



James i:i3. Of His own will begot He 
us with the Word of Truth, that we should 
be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 

I Pet 1:23. Having been begotten 
again, not of corruptible seed, but of in- 
corruptible, through the Word of God, 
which liveth and abideth, for all flesh is as 
grass, and all the glory thereof as the 
flower ot grass. The grass withereth, and 
the flower falleth; but the Word of the 
Lord abideth forever. And this is the 
word of good tidings which was preached 
unto you. 

Puiifying. John xv:3. Now ye are 
clean through the word which I have 
spoken unto you. 

John xvii:'7. Sanctify them through 
Thy truth; Thy Word is truth. 

PROOFS. 

Parable of rick man and Lazarus. 
Lukexvi:3i. If they hear not Moses and 
the prophets, neither will they be per- 
suaded, though one rose from the dead. 

Revivals in tifne of Josiah. II Kings, 
xxiii;2-3. He read in their ears all the 
words of the Book of the Covenant which 
was found in the house of the Lord. And 
the King stood by a pillar, and made a 
covenant before the Lord, to walk after 
the Lord, and to keep His command- 
ments and His testimonies and His stat- 
utes with all their heart and all their soul, 
to perform the words of this covenant that 
were written in this Book. And all the 
people stood to the covenant. 

Revivals in time of Nehemiah. Neh 
ix:3. And they stood up in their place, 
and read in the Book of the law of the 
Lord their God, one-fourth part of the day; 
and another fourth part they confessed, 
and worshiped the Lord their God. 

Revivals in time of Apostles. Acts iv: 
29-31. And now, Lord, behold their 
threatenings; and grant unto Thy ser- 
vants, that with all boldness they may 
speak Thy Word, and they were 



all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they 
spake the Word of God with boldness. 
Helps for Christian Workers. 



HOLY SCRIPTURE. 

Its Inspiration. II Timothy iii: 16, 17; 
II Pet. i:20, 21; Rom. xv:.+ ; I Cor. x:ii; 
Eph. vi:;7. I Thess. ii:?3. 

Its Sufficiency. Lukexvi:3i; Deut. iv: 
2; Prov. xxx:5, 6; Rev. xxii: 17-19. 

Its Power. Johnxv:3; xvii:i7; Eph. 
v:26; Jer. xxiii:29; Heb. iv:i2; Ps. xix; 
7-11. 

Its Use, and our Duty toward it. Neh. 
viii:8 and ix:2, 3; II Chron. xviiig; I Pet. 
iv:n; Acts xviii:28, and xviiill, 12; II 
Cor. ii : 1 7 ; Deut. vi:6, 7, and xxix:29; 
Joshua i:8; Psalm i:2; I Pet. ii: 1, 2; Col. 
iii:i6; Ps. cxix:i, 2, 9, n, etc. 

Our need of Divine Light. Ps. cxix: 
18; Luke xxiv:45; J onn vi:63; II Cor. 
iii, 5. *• 

. Ignorance of Scripture. Matt, xxii: 29; 
John xx:9; John v:38; Isa. viii:20. 

Anon. 

FIVE GOLDEN RULES FOR 

BIBLE READERS. 

1. 

Keep your minds close to God's Word; 
let them not rove and wander while you 
hear it; if they do, you lose all. This is 
the apostle's counsel, "to give earnest 
heed;" to be intent upon the things we 
hear; to watch the words as they come 
forth out of the preachers' mouths (Heb. 
ii:i). And why so? "Lest at any time 
we let them slip." If we would remem- 
ber well, there must not be the least di- 
version. 

11. 

Get a good understanding in the Word 
of God. The observation of the Holy 
Ghost is notable for this purpose: Luke 
ii: 19, "They understood not the sayings 
which He spake unto them. But Mary 
kept all these sayings in her heart." 



42 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



They kept them not, because they did 
not understand them. That which is not 
understood will very hardly be remem- 
bered. They are our understanding hear- 
ers that carry all away, while ignorant and 
sottish people keep nothing. 
III. 
Value the Word of God more, and you 
shall find you will remember it the bet- 
ter. See the necessity, the excellency of 
it, and then you will be careful how you 
lose it. Esteem it, as the prophet David 
did, above gold — yea, above fine gold. 
He whose memory is weakest seldom for- 
gets where he hath laid his gold. 

IV. 

Strengthen memory by meditation, rep- 
etition, conference of what you hear. If 
it be hard to take in holy truths, chase 
them in, rub them in, and settle them by 
this means. Let them be as a nail well 
fastened, as the expression of the wise 
man is, and set home with many strokes, 
that they may not out again, 
v. 

Set instantly upon the practice of the 
truth delivered to you; as soon as you 
hear it, act it. That which you do 
you will remember. Mark that of the 
apostle, James 1:25, ' Not being a forget- 
ful hearer, but a doer of the word;" the 
doer then is no forgetful hearer. Many 
men remember nothing, because indeed 
they do nothing. J. M. 



WHAT THE WORD SAYS ABOUT 
ITSELF. 

Able to make wise. II Tim. iii : 15. 
Able to build you up. Acts xx:32. 
Able to save your soul. James i:2i. 
Profitable for teaching. II Tim. iii: 16. 
Means of furnishing the work. II Tim. 
iii: 1 7. 

Seed for sowers. Lukeviikn. 
Incorruptible. I Peter r.23. 
Sword for soldiers. Frph. vi:i7. 



Two edged sword. Heb. iv.12. 
Means of sanctification. John xvii:i7. 

HOW USED. 

Accurately. Deut. iv:2, and Rev. xxii: 
18, 19. 

Carry it with you. II Chron. xviko,. 
Search Cnot simply read.) John v:3g. 
Search daily. Acts xviiili. 
For leaders of meetings. Neh. viii:8. 
Meditate. Josh. i:8. 



THE INSPIRED WORDS. 

1. The words of the law. I will be 
with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou 
shalt say. Ex. iv:io-i2 ; Lev. i:i, 2; 
Deut. iv:2. 

2. The words of the Psalms. The 
Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his 
word was in my tongue. II Sam. xxiii:2; 
Prov. xxx:5, 6. 

3. The words of the prophets. What- 
soever I command thee thou shalt speak. 
Behold I have put my words in thy mouth. 
Jer. 1:6-9; Isa. lv:ii; Ezek. iii:4; Zech. 
vii:i2; Mai. i:i. 

4. The entire Old Testament. The 
prophecy came not in old time by the will 
of man; but holy men of God spake as 
they were moved by the Holy Ghost. II 
Peter i:2i. 

5. The words of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. The words that I speak unto you, 
they are spirit, and they are life, John vi: 
63. Heaven and earth shall pass away, 
but my words shall not pass away. Matt. 
xxiv:35; J onn xvii:8. 

6. The words of the apostles. It is 
not ye that speak, bu f the Spirit of your 
Father which speaketh in you, Matt. x:20. 
And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost, and began to speak with other 
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance, 
Acts ii:4. Which things also we speak, 
not in the words which man's wisdom 
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teach- 
eth. I Cor. 11:13; xiv:37; II Peter iii:2, 
16; I John iv:6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



45 



7. All the sacred writings. All Scrip- 
ture is given by inspiration of God. 
II Tim. iii:i6; Rev. xxii:i8, 19. 

Rev. J. H. Brookes, D. D. 



SYMBOLS OF THE WORD GIVEN 
IN THE SCRIPTURE ITSELF. 

1. The mirror, to show us ourselves as 
we are and may be, James 1:25. 

2. The laver, to wash away our sin and 
defilement, Eph. v:26. 

3. The lamp and light, to guide us in 
the right way, Ps. cxix:i- 5. 

4. 5, 6, 7. The milk, bread, strong 
meat and honey, affording sustenance and 
satisfaction to the believer at all stages of 
spiritual development, Heb. v:i2, 14; Ps. 
xix:io, etc. 

8. The fine gold to enrich us with heav- 
enly treasure, Ps. xix:io. 

9, 10, 11. The fire, hammer and sword 
to be used in the work and warfare of life, 
Jer. xxiii:29; Heb. iv:i2; Eph. vr.17. 

12. The seed, to beget souls in God's 
image, and to plant harvest fields for God, 
James i:i8; I Peter 1:23; Matt. xiii. 

Dr. A. T. Pierson. 



NAMES OF THE WORD. 

1. The oracles of God, because it con- 
tains the spoken words of God. Unto 
them were committed the oracles of God, 
Rom. iii:2. 

2. The word of faith, because it is to 
be believed. The word of faith, which we 
preach, Rom. x:8. 

3. The word of the gospel, because it 
sets forth the glad tidings of God's love 
for a lost world. That the Gentiles by 
my mouth should hear the word of the 
gospel, and believe, Actsxv:7. 

4. The word of reconciliation, because 
God is revealed in it as satisfied with the 
work of His dear Son, and in an attitude 
of beseeching men. God was in Christ 
reconciling the world unto himself, not 



imputing their trespasses unto them, and 
hath committed unto us the word of recon- 
ciliation, II Cor. v:ig. 

5. The word of truth, because it is the 
truth without admixture of error, the only 
book that has nothing but truth in ev^ry 
statement from first to last. In whom ye 
also trusted, after that ye heard the word 
of truth, the gospel of your salvation, Eph. 
i:i3- 

6. The word of life, because it makes 
known the way by which a dead sinner is. 
made alive, and by which the new life 
that is in him can be nourished and mani- 
fested. Among whom ye shine as ligr ts 
in the world; holding forth the word oi 
life, Phil. ii:i6. 

7. The Word of Christ, because Christ 
is its center and circumference, the begin- 
ning, the middle, and the end, the author, 
the subject, and the object. Let the 
Word of Christ dwell in you richly in a/1 
wisdom, Col. iii:i6. 

Rev. J. H. Brookes, D. D. 



BIBLE READING AND BIBLE 

STUDY. 

If you have but ten or fifteen minutes 
night and morning, read God's Word— 
and read it consecutively. In this way 
you get a grasp of the "whole counsel of 
God." But this is not Bible study. For 
this, fifteen minutes will not suffice. Try 
and secure two or three hours as often as 
possible, and then set yourself down to 
your Bible, with your concordance, your 
text book, and pen, ink and ruler. Deter- 
mine you will not be diverted from your 
purpose, and you may expect a feast of 
fat things. Don't be impatient; light from 
God does not break over the sacred page 
in a moment; so wait, and ponder, and 
pray — compare Scripture with Scripture- - 
and as you thus dig, God will unfold to 
you "precious things." 

Mrs. S. Menzies. 



44 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



SCRIPTURE ANSWERS TO RO- 
MAN CATHOLICS. 

i. as to mary's need of a saviour. 

Matt. ii:2. The Son, and not the 
mother, worshiped. Beads.* 

Matt. ii:ii, 13, 14, 20, 21. The child 
always first. 

Luke 1:46, 47. Mary confesses Jesus 
her Saviour, thereby showing her need of 
a Saviour. 

Acts. i:i4- The last mention of Mary, 
in a prayer meeting and occupying no 
higher place than the others. 

II. AS TO CONFESSION TO PRIESTS. 

Mark ii : 7. God only can forgive sins. 

Heb. vii:27. Priests needed forgive- 
ness. 

Ps. xxxii.5-7. David confessed to God. 

Ezra x: 10-12. Ezra a priest, taught 
confess to God. 

Dan. ix:4,5. Daniel said, confess to 
God. 

Acts viii:20-22. Peter told the Sorceror 
to confess to God. 

I Pet. ii : 5 , 9. Peter says all believers 
are priests. 

James v:i6. James exhorts all believers 
to confess faults, Greek says sins, oae to 
another. 
III. AS TO HIGH CLAIMS MADE FOR PETER. 

Luke v:8. Peter said: I am a sinful 
man. 

Actsiii,i2. Peter said, not his power 
or holiness. 

Acts x:24-26. Peter said, I am but a 
man. 

*Beads. The beads used by Catholics are 
ten small white ones, then one large black one, 
then ten more small ones, etc., used while in 
prayer; ten prayers to Mary and one to Jesus, 
etc. Not so in Matt, ii, etc. Son always first. 

Do not use all these texts with a Roman 
Catholic at the same time, but first find out his 
needs. If he is expecting- great things by Ma-y, 
take him to first heading. If on confession to 
Priest, use text under that bead. If he expects 
much through Peter, take him to third heading, 
etc. 



Acts ix:32-35. Peter said, Jesus maketh 
thee whole. Not Peter. 

Acts x:36. Peter said, peace by Jesus 
Christ. 

Acts iv.12. Peter said, No help of hope 
aside from Jesus. 

Gal. ii: 1 1-14. Paul blamed Peter for 
acting the hypocrite, and this after Peter 
had been an apostle about twenty five 
vears, and not a young convert. 

IV. AS TO TRANSLATION AND EXPLANA- 

TION OF THE SCRIPTURES. 

Neh. viii:i-i8, ix:2,3. Ezra the priest 
made the people to understand them. 

I Cor. xiv:i9. Paul says make yourself 
understood. 

Luke xxiv:44-47. Jesus always teach- 
ing the 0. T. 

V. AS TO THE MARRIAGE OF PRIESTS. 
Luke i:5-i 7. Zacharias, a priest, mar- 
ried and yet pleased God. 

Mark i: 29-31. Peter was married. 

I Tim. 3:2-4. Elders, overseers or 
bishops zvere married. 

I Tim. 4:1-3. Paul says to forbid to 
marry is of the devil. 

VI. AS TO PRAYING FOR THE DEAD. 

Heb. 9:27. After death the judgment. 
Luke xvi:i9-3i. Abraham could not 
help the dead 'and Jesus gave no hope. 

VII. I JOHN 111:22,23. THE TWO COM- 
MANDMENTS. 

Rom. xiv.14-18. Eating meat or not a 
matter of indifference. 

I Tim. iv:i-5. To forbid meats is of 
the devil. 

Matt. xxvi:27. All were to drink of the 
cup. 

Mark xiv:23. They all drank after it 
and not a priest to drink for the congrega- 
tion. 
4 

VIII. AS TO WORKS. 

John vi:28, 29. Believe is doing God's 
work. 

Rom. iii : 28. Justified without works. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



45 



Rom. iv.5. To him that worketh not 
but believeth. 

Eph. ii:S, 9. Saved by grace, not xvorks. 
II Tim. i:g. Saved not by works. 

Rom. v:i. Peace not by works. 

Jas. ii: 10. To offend in ONE point 
guilty of all. 

Gal. iii:io. Cursed is every one who fails 

to do all. 

IX. AS TO PETER'S BEING IN ROME. 

Epistle to Romans A. D. 58 to 60. 

1. Rom. xvi. Paul salutes twenty-six 
or more persons by name. Peter not 
among them. 

2. Paul writes from Rome his Epistles 
Eph. Phil. Col. and names brethren by 
name who were with him but Peter was 
not one of them. 

3. Paul writes II Tim. from Rome, the 
last letter he wrote just before his death, 
says Luke only is with me. II Tim. 
iv:9-i2. Not one word about Peter. 

A Converted Roman Catholic. 



VALUE OF CHRIST'S BLOOD. 

Only God Himself knows fully the value 
of the Precious Blood of Christ, Precious 
(Priceless). No one in the world can tell 
us the value of that which is Priceless. 
God has communicated to us very much of 
His mind concerning it. More about 
blood, atonement, substitution, than any- 
thing else. From Genesis to Revelation 
we find the scarlet line running through 
the entire book. Ever)- page seems to 
send forth the one grand, soul-saving 
truth " without shedding of blood is no 
remission." 

It' need hardly be said that by the Blooa 
of Christ we mean that blood which He 
shed, when He " became obedient unto 
death, even the death of the cross." The 
Blood representing the Life which He gave 
as a ransom for all. Chist-crucified the 
corner-stone of God's redemptive work. 
The sacrifice (blood-shedding) or the Just 



for the Unjust, the burden of the Word of 
God. 

1. 

Read Gen iii. — The Fall. In Adam 
we are all fallen, Rom. v: 12. As soon as 
man sinned— became unrighteous — he set 
to work to try and work out a salvation y 
Gen. iii: 7. But failed— Cable broken. 
Bankrupt — Separated — Spiritual and Eter- 
nal Death — Sin must be put away. God's 
claims must be met. We now begin to 
see the value of Christ's Blood, Rom. v: 
6; II Tim. i: 10. Man has been at 
work nearly 6,000 years, trying to cover 
and hide himself. What has God's Word 
to say about this? Isa. xxix: 15; Isa. xxx: 
1; II Kings v: 25, 27; Gen. iii: 8, 10; 
Ps. x: ii; Amos ix: 2, 3; Job. xxiv. 21, 
22; Isa. xxviii; 17, 22; Heb. 4: 12, 13. 

The remedy (or covering) provided in 
Adam's case Gen. iii: 21. We have 
here a figure of Divine Redemption. 

First Death, as a type of that Death 
which would reconcile God to man. 

First Sacrifice, sin offering, to procure 
covering for sinner. 

Last Sacrifice, sin offering to procure 
Robe of Righteousness for sinners. Heb. 
ix: 26, 28. 

First Blood, shed by God Himself. 

Last Blood, shed by God Himself. Isa, 
liii: 10; II Cor. v: 21. 

All between copy of First and type of 
Last. 

Innocent suffering for guilty. I Pet. 3: 
18. 

Contrast Isa. lxiv: 6; Matt, xxii: 11, 
with Isa. lxi: 10; Jer. xxiii: 6; I Cor. i: 
30; Luke xv : 22; Zech. iii: 1-4; Rev. vii: 

13, 14. 

II. 

Gen. iv: 3-5. Heb. xi: 4. Man for 
first time brought before us in act of wor- 
ship. 

TWO RELIGIOUS MEN. 

I. The natural condition of each. Sin- 
ners. Born outside Eden, of sinful flesh. 



4 6 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Rom. v: 12; John iii. 6; I Cor. 15: 48. 

2. Agreed as to their being a Supreme 
God. 

3. Agreed, it was their duty to worship 
this Supreme Being. 

Where did they differ, not in themselves 
but in their sacrifices. 



Offerings. 



CAINS. 

1. The product of his oxvn labor, the 
fruits of a cursed earth. 

2. An offering of works. 

3. Pointed to the work of mens hands. 

4. Acknowledged No Sin. 

abel's. 

1. A Firstling of the flock — the life 
blood of an innocent lamb. 

2. An offering of faith. 

3. Pointed to the Spotless Lamb. 

4. Acknowledged Sin and pointed to 
Him who taketh away the Sin of the 
World. 

Whatever is not of faith is Sin, Rom. 
xiv: 23. 

Without faith it is impossible to please 
■God, Heb. xi: 6. 

In the great question of reconciliation: 

Sin must be atoned for in only one way! 

Death and Judgment must be met in 
•only one way! 

Cain could not get by Death and Judg- 
ment because there was oniy one way! 

We cannot escape except by only one 
way! 

This one way is by the Blood, Heb. ix: 
22; Rom. iii: 25; Matt, xxvi: 28; Eph. 
1. 6, 7; Acts iv: 10-12. 

God has appointed one tvay. Christ 
went about doing good, but it was His 
death (blood-shedding) that rent the vail 
and gave man the way of access to God. 
Matt, xxvii: 50, 51; Lev. xvi: 14, 16; Eph. 
ii: 13, 18; Heb. x: 19; Heb. ix: 12. 

What does God say as to the work of 
this Great Substitute, II Tirmj; 10. 

What does the Holy Spirit say of Cain I 



and Abel? Matt, xxiii: 35; Heb. xi: 4; I 
John iii: 12 cf; Heb. xii: 24. 

The (shed-blood) death of Jesus meets 
the demands of God, Rom. iii: 25, 26; 
Heb. ix; 20, 28; Lev. xvii: 11. 

The (shed-blood) death of Jesus meets 
man's deep necessities, John vi: 54, 56; 
Mark xiv: 24; Eph. i: 7; Heb. ix: 14; 
Heb. xiii: 12. 

Cain not only did not bring the accept- 
able offering but despised it. Gen. iv:5, 8. 

The last great Sacrifice neglected and 
despised, Isa. liii; 3; John v: 40. 

Millions to-day following Cain, Jude 11; 
I Tim. i: 15; Rom. iii: 25, 26. 



HIS OWN BLOOD. 

acts xx: 2S. Heb. ix: 12. 
What it means to the Believer. — That 
is the Church of God — who, what. Matt, 
xvi: 18; Col. i: 18, 24. 

1. Present foigiveness, its value; Heb. 
ix: 22; its certainty, Eph. i: 7; its suffi- 
ciency, I John i: 7. 

2. Present redemption, Acts xx: 28; 
Eph. i: 7; Col. i: 14. 

3. Present safety, Salvation, Tit. ii: 
n, 14; Ex. xii, 13; I Tim. ii: 4, 6; eter- 
nal, Heb. ix: 12, 24, 28. 

4. Present sonship made right, Eph. 
ii: 13; I John iii: 1; Luke xv: 20-24. 

5. Present translation translated, John 
v: 24; Col. i: 13, 14. 

6. Present exaltation, what royalty, 
Rev. i: 5, 6; v: 10; xx: 4; 1. c. 

7. Present Union His Bride, Eph. v: 
25, 32; Rev. xix: 7, 8, Matt. xxv. 

APPLICATION. 

The price paid, Ps. xlix: 8; I Pet. i: 18, 
19. 

What is expected of us, I Cor. vi: 19, 
20. 

THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 

1. Justifies, Rom. v: ix. 

2. Sanctifies, Heb. ix: 13. 

3. Glorifies, Rev. i: 5, 6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



47 



"PRECIOUS BLOOD." 

1. Redeemed. I Pet. i:i8, 19. 

2. Washed. Rev. 1:5. 

3. Cleansed. I John 1:7. 

4. Forgiveness. Eph. 1:7. 

5. Justified. Rom. v:g. 

6. Sanctified. Heb. xiii:i2. 

7. Peace. Col. i:20. 

8. Perfect. Heb. x:i4. 

9. Overcome. Rev. xii:ii. 

to. Anointed Kings and Priests. Rev. 
i:5, 6. 

11. Made night. Eph. ii: r 3. 

12. Constant access. Heb. x:ig. 

13. Right to the " Tree of Life." Rev. 
xxii:i4. 

14. Stand in white robes before the 
throne. Rev. vii:i4< 



THE BLOOD OF THE NEW 
COVENANT. 

Matt. xxvi:2S; Markxiv:24. 

1. Propitiation. Rom. iii:25; see II 
Cor. v:i8-20. 

2. Redemption and forgiveness of sins. 
Eph. i:7; Col. i . 1 4 ; Rev. v:g. 

3. Cleansing. Heb. ix:i3, 14. I John 
1:7; Rev. 1:5. 

4. Justification. Rom. v:g. 

5. Peace. Eph. ii: 13-18. Col. i:2o. 

6. Sanctif cation. Heb. xiii:i2. See 
verse 13, Come out ! 

7. Victory. Rev. xii:g-H. 
Eternal Life, John vi:54. 
See v. 53. Except. 

Final preservation of the Saints. 

Anon. 



"CONFESSION." 

Confess. To acknowledge, to own or 
admit. 

If we are to profit by the study of the 
Word of God, we must be honest. 1. 
Honest with God. 2. Honest with our- 
selves. God hates shams. Let us not 
forget that there is no creature that is not 
manifest in His sight, but all things are 



laid open before the eyes of Him with 
whom we have to do. Heb. ivi3, R. V. 
Then let us come close to God. 

This subject of confession is one that 
is very much neglected in these days of 
subtle deception, and loud but' hollow 
profession. 

He is faithful that hath promised. Yes, 
thank God. But what of His faithful- 
ness regarding unconfessed sin ? 

He is faithful that threatened. 

Will by no means clear the guilty. See 
Ex. xxxiv:6, 7. 

He will not, He cannot. He would un- 
deify Himself were He to yield here. 

Do you say with many of the modern 
thinkers of to-day — God will by some 
means clear the guilty. Be not deceived. 
God cannot lie. 

The golden chain of grace stretches 
from heaven to earth, even to the lowest 
depths of sin and vileness. But mark, it 
is the grace of Him who cannot look upon 
sin with the least degree of allowance. 

The grace of Him who will by no 
means clear the guilty. 

I.— THE SINNER'S CONFESSION TO GOD. 

This is the starting point. Do you 
know what it is to confess yourself a sin- 
ner to God ? This is no Roman Catholic 
doctrine. God's will is that all men 
should be saved 

But without confession, no salvation. 

Confession of yourself as the sinner is 
as essential to your salvation as "Faith in 
Christ." 

But let us turn to "the law" and "the 
testimony" — and the " Thus saith the 
Lord." 

Prow xxviii:i3. Sin covered or con- 
fessed, which ? If covered by the sinner, 
what then ? Shall not prosper. Isa. lxiv: 
6; lix:6; Luke xii:i, 3. See Adam, 
Achan, Gehazi and others. 

Concealment of sin delivers none from 
God's wrath. But if confessed to God, 
what then ? Shall have mercy. 



4 8 



NOTES FOR BIELE READINGS. 



Ps. xxxihi. Sin if confessed by the 
sinner is covered by God, under the 
blood. 

See other verses in Ps. xxxii. Kept 
silence, i. e., covered my sin's result. Thy 
hand heavy upon me. 

God*s heavy hand of justice, or God's 
heavy hand of mercy. Which ? 

Verse 5. What a volume of theology is 
here. There is no gainsaying these 
things. 

The confession must be: 

1. Personal. Ps. xxxii:5; xxv:ii; Luke 
xviii:i3, me the sinner. What a differ- 
ence. Two sinners, one a sinful Pharisee 
the other a sinful publican. 

One covered his sins, the other tincov- 
ered his sins. Notice what the Holy 
Spirit has recorded of these two men. 
The one who covered his sin. 
(1.) With himself. Self will. 
(2.) I thank thee — that I am good — he 
had much to be thankful for, but what was 
it ! Was it health — prosperity? Oh, no; 
love, mercy, long suffering. 

The other man takes his proper place. 
Afar off just #here his sins had brought 
him. 

Ashamed to look up. The Holy God. 

Smote his breast. There the fountain 
of all wickedness. Jer. xviiig. 

God, I am the sinner, God be merciful 
to me. God be reconciled to me the sin- 
ner He claims the mercy of the merciful 
God. 

What is the Lord's testimony of these 
two men ? 

I tell you. Compare Prov. xxviii:i3. 

Conviction. 1 

Confession. ! ^ ,, , 
r> 4. •*.' r God s order. 

Contrition, j 

Conversion. J 

Not that confession or contrition have 
any merit in them, for there is nothing 
meritorious in these. No merit but in 
Christ and His shed blood, but the sinner 
must plead guilty before he can expect 
pardon. 



"Confession is the step to pardon." 

2. Full. Not only sins committed, but 
sinful (full of sin.) Job xl:'4; vile, Job 
xlii:5, 6, self abhorred. 

3. With contrition Ps. xxxviii:i3; 
Luke xviii:i3. 

4. A forsaking of sin. Prov. xxviii:i3; 
Isa. lv:7, forsake all and follow me. How 
many stop just here, see Luke xviii:23. 
Compare Luke xv.iS to 24. See that 
young ruler went away sorrowful. Look 
at the Prodigal. His confession was per- 
sonal, full, contrite, Luke xv:iS, 19. He 
forsook all. Result — he obtained mercy. 

The sinner must give up— or no sal- 
vation. 

The sinner must let go — or no heaven. 

The sinner must forsake — or go to hell. 

What value is there in the confession 
that still retains the sin. 

How the father abundantly pardons. 
Isa. lv:7; but the sinner must forsake and 
return, i. e. confession, complete ac- 
knowledgment. 

The Lord never misrepresents, neither 
will He have anything to do with these 
who make misrepresentation. If we desire 
a blessing from the Lord, come close up, 
and mark God is light. 

Ps. li. Sin: See v. 5. Compare I 
John i:8. v. 3, 4. Compare I John r.g 

, — THE CONFESSION OF JESUS AS LORD. 

It is not only confess, acknowledge 
what we are, but it is equally important 
that we confess, acknowledge what Christ 
is and hath done for us. 

In proportion as we know and ac- 
knowledge Christ Jesus Lord, His life 
will be manifested in us. 

How often Christ is concealed — hid — 
simply because we will not have Him live 
in us. 

If Christ as Lord lived "in" us He 
would be seen living "out" of us. 

Rom. x:9, 10. Confession, believing, 
faith in Christ, confession of Christ. 

If God requires confession we cannot 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



49 



believe His promise of salvation — without 
the purpose of confession. 

In what respect is confession here a 
condition of salvation ? 

i . What you believe about Christ. 

2. What Christ is to us. 

" What think ye of Christ" is the sim- 
ple question the Spirit would put to the 
inquirer after salvation. " Lord Jesus." 
"Jesus Lord." What is involved in these 
names of Lord, Rom. 1:3, 4; iv.25. Hu- 
manity, humiliation, divinity, exaltation. 

Not only own Him as Lord, but as your 
Lord. 

To do this what is necessary on our 
part. Acts ii:3b; xvi:3i. See Rom. x.3. 

Absolute surrender. Submission to 
Christ as sovereign. 

This knocks away all human props and 
all self-merit ! 

Lord help me. Matt xv:25; I John iv. 

IS- 

Lord save me. Matt. xiv:3o; I Cor. xii.3. 

Lord remember me. Luke xxiii'42, 
Rom. x:9, 10. 

1. For the afflicted daughter — sickness. 

2. For the Natural life — danger. 

3. For the Spiritual life — eternity. 
Christ as Lord saves in every instance. 
Such confession springs from heart 

faith. Look again at Rom. x:g, 10. 

These two, confession and faith, are 
linked together by wisdom divine, and 
What God hath joined together, let no 
man put asunder. A true man will never 
confess what he does not believe, and un- 
less there be this heart faith there will be 
no true confession. 

Believe, confess, and thou shalt be 
saved. 

See Hos. v:i;. Action, Hos. vi.i. 

Return, confess. Not merely to escape 
punishment, for such confession will never 
lead to salvation. 

III.— THE CONFESSION OF CHRIST TO THF 
WORLD. 

See Luke xii:: ; Rom. x:io. 
4 



"Every one therefore who shall confers 
Me (in me) before men, him (in him) will 
I also confess before my Father which is 
in heaven." Matt. x 32. 

God has a purpose in our being left 
in this world, which seems in our day, to 
a most alarming extent either not to be 
known, or if known, is practically disre- 
garded and unheeded. So much of self — 
so little of Christ. See what the Lord 
saith — 

1. "Set apart for Himself." Ps. iv.3. 

2. "Ye are my witnesses." Isa. xliii. 
10. 

3. "Show forth my praise." Isa. xl'ii: 
21. 

4. "To show forth the excellencies of 
Him." I Pet. ii:g. 

5. "Ye are the light of the world." 
Matt. v:i4. 

6. "Luminaries in the world, holding 
forth the word of life." Phil, ii . 1 5 , 16. 

7. "Go ye into all the world, and preach 
(confess) the gospel to the whole creation." 
Mark xvi:i5. 

8. "Ye shall be my witnesses (con-, 
fessors) unto the uttermost part of the 
earth." Acts i 8. 

Oh, how little the great purpose of our 
redemption is realized — much less con- 
fessed — what a fearful amount of perjury 
is chargeable to the church of the Living 
God. "What misrepresentation" — "what 
false witnessing." Well might the Lord 
say, "When the Son of Man cometh shall 
he find faith on the earth." 

There is a wonderful meaning in this 
word confess — as the following four groups 
of Scriptures will show. 

1. Rrov. xxviii:i3; Ps. xxxii.5; Ezra x. 
11. Confessing and forsaking. Throw- 
ing out of the hand, or casting away. 

2. Lev. v. 5: Num. v. 7- Neh. ix.2. 3; 
Dan. ix.4, 20. Speak for oneself. 

%. Matt. iii:6; Rom. xiv:ii; Phil, ii.ii; 



[ames v.16; Rev. Hi 5. Rom. x:io. 
; peak out the same thing. 



To 



So 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



4. Matt. x:32; Luke xii:8; John i. 20; 
ix:22; xii.42; Rom. x:io; I Tim. vi:i 
I Tim. vi;i3; I John iv;2, 3, 15; II John 
7. To speak the same thing as another 

It is in connection with the latter group 
we have to do at this time. "Speak the 
same thing as another." Speak — confess 
— (Gk. Homo Logeo [Logos] ) A word 
the Word — positive declaration. So 
Christ the Logos, the Word. The con- 
fessor to the world of the love of God. 
John i. 1-3; Johniii.16; Heb. i:i, 2; John 
xii:49, 5°- 

To confess Christ to the world there- 
fore, is to speak the same thing as Christ 
— or as Paul puts it, "To me to live is 
Christ." Phil. i;2i. 

Now for the manifestation of this life. 
The confessing of Christ to the world. 
"The times" demand a very distinct tes- 
timony of Christ. God claims it. The 
world needs it. 

Witnesses for Christ. Isa. xliii:io. 
Acts i:8. 

1. By a holy and godly life. 2. Ey 
distinct and positive testimony. 

I. John x.io. Manifested life. Is 
this life abundant life, II Cor. iii.3. Is 
there this manifest declaration. 

Rom. vi.4, Newness of life. 

Newness of standing — in Christ, II 
Cor. v- 17. 

Newness of relationship — children of 
God, I John iv:4. 

Newness of privilege — access to God. 
Eph. ii:i8. 

Newness of character — holiness. Gal. 
iii:27. 

Newness of responsibility — confess 
Christ. II Pet. ii 9. 

What manner of men are we. Is there 
this confession of newness of life? See II 
Cor. ivio, 11; Phil. i:20; I John iii:io. 
The' marks of Christ. 

His compassion, His tenderness, His 
gentleness, His long suffering, His pa- 
tience, His sympathy, His love, His self- 



denial, His wisdom, His faithfulness. His 
holiness, His truth, His power. Phil. 
ii:"5. 

Oh, how little of this is seen in us. 
What's the trouble? 

Is it not because there is so little of 
Christ in the heart ? 

See Titus ii;ii, 12. Negative, denying 
ungodliness and worldly lust. 

Positive live (a) soberly, as regards self 
(b) righteously as regards men (c) godly 
as regards God. Such is the confession 
the grace of God would teach us to live. 

See Isa. xliv:8; Acts v.29. to 32; Rom' 
i:i4, 16; John xii:42, 43; Heb. xiii : 13 
margin; Mark v;i8-2C; Luke viii:39,40. 

2. Tell it to others. Andrew, John i. 
41, 42; Philip, John i :45, 46; Samaritan 
woman. John iv:2S, 29; Paul, Acts ix:20; 
Peter and the apostles, Acts v:4i, 42. 
The scattered church, Acts viii:4. The 
man from the tombs, Mark v:i9, 20. 

See the result ! 

Tell it out among the heathen. 

Don't wait for the millions. 

See the greatest confessor that ever 
lived, Jesus. 

Note woman of Canaan, John iv:28-3o; 
man at the pool, John v:i5; man palsied, 
Luke v:25; Blind Bartimeus., Luke xviii: 
43; Zacheus, Luke xix:8; the leper, Mark 

i:45- 

How marvelous the manner in which 
we develop when, like our Lord, we fall in 
love with souls. 

Luke xii:8. Mark under what circum- 
stances these words were uttered. 

Compare John ix.22; John xii, 42. 
Moral courage, and not be moral cowards. 

See I Tim. vi:ii, 12. Confess the 
good confession. 

Heb. xiii -.12-15. Sanctified, separated 
ones; no longer friends of the world. 

Let us go forth and make the confession 
— we cannot afford to court the friendship 
of the world. Friendship with God is 
love for the world, but friendship with 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



5' 



the world is enmity with God. James iv:_i; 
See John xv:4. 

What is the command ? Go ye into all 
the world and preach the gospel, i. e., 
Confess me. 

lie who is God's truest friend is the 
very best friend to the world. 

See Matt, xi.19. No closer friend with 
God than He. No better friend to the 
world than He. 

Just because of His great attachment to 
God He came down to this world of sin 
and woe to confess, declare, the love of 
God for sinners, and bring them into 
friendship with God. 

Divine separation, human separation. 
Two very different things. 

Too often like the Pharisee of old, we 
shrink away from the poor unfortunate, 
and cannot bear to have them come near 
us. 9 

Not so with the friend of God and 
friend of sinners. Mark viii:23« 

To confess Christ to the world, there 
must be: 

1. The knowledge of Christ, abiding 
communion with him, John xv. His 
word abiding in us, Col. iii: 16. Speak- 
ing confessing that we do know Christ. 

2. The realization of Christ's presence 
with tts. John xv: 5. 

3. Following the mind of Christ, 
liumility and obedience, Phil, ii- 

4. Following the example of Christ, 
hatred for sin, love for sinners, Rom. vi: 
12, 13; Matt, xx: 23. 

5. Fntire dependence on the Holy 
Spnit. Acts i: 8, etc. 

6. A Holy Life. Life confession 
Living. Christ. Life more abundantly, 
John x. 10. 

Epistle of Christ known and read of all 
men, II Cor. iii: 2, 3. 

The Life of Christ manifested, II Cor. 
iv; 10, 11. 

Walking in newness of Life, Rom. 
vi: 4. 



Negative and Positive Living, Tit. ii. 
n, 12. 

HOLY LIVING, EPH. I: 4. 

Without hoiiness, Heb, xii: 14. Chosen 
for what — Holiness, Blameless, .Corres- 
ponding Responsibility. 

1. Created into Christ Jesus, unto 
good works, Eph. ii: 10; Tit. ii: 14; iii: 8. 

2. Predestined — Conformed to the 
image of His Son, Rom. viii: 29; II Cor. 
iii: 18. 

3. Called to be Saints, Rom. i: 7; 
I Thess. iv: 7. 

4. Elect — Elected to obedience, I Pet. 
i: 2; Rom. i: 5: I Pet. i: 14, 22. 

5. Died with Christ, reckon yourself 
dead to Sin, Rom. vi: 11. 

6. Quickened with Christ — Live in 
newness of Life, Rom. vi: 4. 

7. Seated with Christ in Heavenly 
Places. Set the mind on things above, 
Col. iii: 1, 2; Eph. ii, 6. 

SAFETY AND SANCTITY GO TOGETHER. 

This is not simple responsibility. God's 
Love, Honor and Glory demand it. The' 
times demand it. 

Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, 
I Pet. iii: 15. 

Sincerity, Phil, i: 9, 10. 

7. A Fearless Testi?nony. The lip or 
tongue testimony (confession) and this lip 
confession will only be powerful as the 
Life is in accordance with the confession 
made. 

Some examples of confessing Christ, 
Enoch, Gen. v. 24; Joseph, Gen. xxxix: 
2-3; Joshua, Jos. xxiv:i5; The Little 



Daniel, Dan. vi 



Maid, II Kings v 
Peter, Acts v: 29; Matt, xvi: 16, 17; Paul, 
Rom. i: 16; John, John i: 29, 34. 
See the result of these: 

IV. — THE CONFESSION OF SIN TO THE 
FATHER. 

"The child's confession to the father." 
We noticed before that we cannot con- 
fess Christ until we possess Christ, and as 



52 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



there is a difference between confession 
and possession, so there is a vast differ- 
ence between confession and profession. 

Professing to be something, Tit. i: 16; 
Rom. i: 22. 

Confessing the fact that I am something, 
I Tim. vi: 12; Heb. iii: ); Heb. iv: 14; 
Heb. x: 23. 

I may profess to be the son of a King, 
an heir to a throne; wear the garb of a 
prince, and hope I shall wear a crown, 
but if not born in the King's family my 
profession and hope is that of a madman. 
Now look at John i: 12. 

Receiving Him brings about a great 
change to us. What is it? Children of 
God, and that now, and as it is impossi- 
ble for us to confess Christ until we pos 
sess Christ, so is it just as impossible for 
us to confess Christ unless we maintain 
the conscious realization and communion 
with Christ and the Father, and now how 
is this communion broken? Almost invari- 
ably by the neglect of the confession of 
Christ; the two go together. 

To confess Christ to the world there 
must be the power to do it, and this power 
is only to be had by close abiding com- 
munion with Him who has all power, for 
" apart from me ye can do nothing," John 
xv: 5, R. V. 

There must be the Holy Life. But can 
this be? Is it possible? We strike here a 
subject that has caused no end of discus- 
sion, and one on which there is much 
stumbling. 

Let us turn again to I John i: Here 
we find one little word we nineteen times; 
to whom does it apply? Compare I John, 
v: 19; vs. 1, 4, 5, Light; 2, Life; 3, Un- 
ion; 7, Communion; 2, Companionship; 7, 
Holiness; 4, Joy. All this on present 
possession, and this all comes to the 
believer as a result of his standing in 
Christ. 

Now as regards the standing of the 
Child of God, it is of the'deepest impor- 



tance that this be fully understood and 
realized. There can be no true peace 
where this is not seen and known, and 
here come in the questions of sin and 
sins. 

1. Sin having to do with our standing. 

2. Sins having to do with our state, or 
walk. 

The one settled by atonement, Heb. ix: 
26. 

The other settled by advocacy, I John ii: 
1-2. 

THE STANDING OF THE BELIEVER. 

We shall see from Scripture that it is 
once and forever settled, we have to do* * 
with an accomplished Redemption. 

John v: 24, Absolute and eternal change 
in the standing. Rom. vi:i8, Gal. v:22, 
1, Free from sin. Rom. viii: 1 , No con- 
demnation. 

Note, free from Sin, not Sins. 

Either the question with God, about Sin 
is settled or it is not settled. 

If Sin is forever settled, then some one 
says what is the need of an advocate with 
God? Does it say an advocate with God? 
No! An advocate with the Father. 

The question of Sin with God is settled, 
see Heb. ix: 26. 

Compare Heb. viii: 10-12. 

Settled so that God can and does accept 
every believer in the sin bearer as com- 
plete, perfect in Him. Further as to our 
standing. Acts xiii: 39, Justified from all 
things. Col. ii: 10, Complete in Him. 
Heb. x: 12, 14, Perfected forever. He 
made an atonement on account of all sin, 
past, present and future. 

This has reference to sin Godward, or 
that which stood in the way of man be- 
coming as one with God; and hence God's 
precious and full gospel whosoever will, 
but conditional on Repentance toward 
God, and Faith in Christ. 

Sealed, Eph. i: 13, 14; iv: 30. 

The moment we believe and trust 
wholly in Christ, as God's sacrifice for our 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



53 



Sin, we pass from Death unto Life, and 
are placed by God's Infinite Grace where 
Christ is Perfect in Him, John xiii: 10. 

Declared clear, Sin, Death and Judg- 
ment, all past. Righteousness, Life and 
Liberty, all Present and Eternal. 

The cross between us and God. The 
cross behind us, and thus between us and 
Sin, Death and Judgment. 

"Oh, to grace how great a debtor." 

Yes, but we must be careful just here 
lest we bound over into the state of anti- 
nominism, perfectionism, indefinitism. 

Another says "I am no longer under law 
but I am free from the law." All bless- 
edly true as to our standing, but what of 
the state, the walk of Life, and now, 
before we can justly deal with the Believer's 
Confession of Sin, we must see his true 
relation to sin and the. law. 

I. Liability to Sin. 

Dead to Sin, compare I John i: S-io, 
and John iii: 6-S; No Sin v. 10; Not Sinned 
v. 8; Sin in us but not on us, v. 10, Man- 
ifestation of the working of Sin that is in 
us. 

The flesh (the natural man) ever will be 
defective as long as we are in the body. 
The body as it is now is the stronghold of 
Sin, and it is manifested in various ways, 
Rom. vii: 14. 

When shall the body of Sin be fully and 
forever freed from Sin? Rom. viii: 23; I 
Cor. xv: 22, 23, 5 t-54. 

We have no authority to say we cannot 
sin, but we have authority to say that we 
may not Sin. 

2! Relation to Sin and Lazo. 

So far as the guilt of Sin and the con- 
demnation due to it is concerned, Dead to 
its legal claims but not to its moral Domin- 
ion. 

Dead to the Law as to its legal require, 
ments and punishment or penalty, but not 
to its moral obligations, Rom. vi: 7, mar- 
gin. 

Not dead to the feeling sense of the 



pressure and power of Sin, Rom. vii: 21, 

23- 

My will is with it, my actions are 
against it, Gal. v: 17. 

Judicially the believer is Dead to Sin 
and Dead to the Law, and free from both. 

I John i and ii; the little word IF, in 
this connection, seven times suggests 
Responsibility and Liability, and therefore 
we are not free from the Presence and 
Power of Sin. 

Rom. vi:i4, 16. Not bound to fulfil its 
precepts in order to justification before 
God. 

Romvii:4. 1. Husband law. 1. Hus- 
band Christ. 1. Married to Christ and 
belong to Him. 2. Subject to Him. 

Justification by faith through grace does 
not in any way dissolve the obligations to 
the law. If so, it cannot be of God. 
Last clause of v. 4. Bringing forth fru'it. 
The law instead of being abrogated is 
set upon a firmer basis (if possible) than 
ever. 

Rom. x:4. For what ? Rom. viii:3, 4; 
vi: [8; I John iii: 10; iii: 7. 

Standing, we have righteousness im- 
puted. 

State. (Practice.) We have righteous- 
ness imparted. 

"There must be the standing first." 

The gospel so far instead of doing 
away with the law, gives additional proof 
of its divine origin and claims upon all men. 

3. Obligations to live free from sin. 
Three distinct commands. 1. Sin not, 

I John ii:i. 2. Be perfect, Matt. v.48. 
3. Be holy. I Pet. i.14, 16. 

We are called to liberty, but not called 
to liberty or license to do as we like, 

4. How can it be done? 

Surely God means it shall be done or he 
would never command it. How? In 
abiding union with Christ. 

Rom. vi:i4. Sin loses its right to 
rule. 1. By Christ's death. 2. By our 
union with Him. 



54 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS 



What has grace done for us ? i . Given 
us Jesus, John i: 14. 2. Given us of His 
fulness, John i:i6. 3. Salvation from 
sin, Matt. i:2i. In Him we have not 
only righteousness, but strength to main- 
tain righteousness. 

Ps. xl:8. Compare Rom. vii:22. The 
inward man, Eph. iii:i6; II Cor. iv:i6 
The place and purpose of God in His 
wondrous grace is not only to save 
from the guilt and penalty of sin, but 
from the power of sin, I John iii: 5 , 6; 
I John i:7, This the way. It is the blood 
that keeps us clean. Made nigh by the 
blood, Eph. ii : 1 3 . Justified by the blood, 
Rom. v:g. We are lifted up into the 
white light of God by the blood, and by 
the blood we stand in the light, and here 
in the light we see the unspeakable 
preciousness of the blood. Here in the 
light we realize the glorious efficacy and 
power of the blood to keep us clean. 

For as we walk in the light, the blood of 
Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from 
all sin, I John i:7. 

"This is the way, walk ye in it." 

We see then that sin does not in any 
way affect the standing of the child of God. 

We see also that as regards the state, 
(the life here:) 

1. That the law is still binding. 

2. That we are still liable to sin. 

3. That the Father commands that His 
children be perfect, holy, and sin not. 

4. That it is possible thus to live per- 
fect, holy and sinless. 

Now we come to the question of sin 
and its effects on the child of God. 

Sin is sin, be it in the believer or un- 
believer, and it is that abominable thing 
that God hates, and the sooner we take 
the ground that God takes regarding sin, 
the better for us, for until we do, we are 
certainly in a measure in league with sin. 

There is nothing so detestable, so loath- 
some, so offensive, so abominable and so 
malignant, in its nature^_^ Nothing has 



caused so much sorrow, wretchedness,, 
misery, affliction, pain or woe. Oh! what 
desolation, what weeping, what mourning 
it has resulted in Yea, it is the root, the 
source of all woes. It has made hell and. 
ail the subjects of its eternal burnings, 
and nowhere do we see what it really is, 
as at the cross of the Son of God. 

What means that sweat (drops of blood), 
that God-forsaken cry, that cruel, cursed 
death ? We read whosoever abideth in 
Christ sinneth not. But though our pro- 
fession be like that of an angel, if we are 
not abiding in Christ, we are not only 
serving sin but the servants of sin. 

Heart and life searching. See I Cor. 
xi;28, R. V. prove. II Cor. xiii:5, R. V. 
try. Self judgment, self examination, 
see Luke xv:i7, etc. 

All true self examination (or judgment) 
will lead the soul to a deeper and fuller 
consecration to God. Compare the heart, 
the life, with the holy standard, the rule,. 
God's will. See Ps. xix:7, 9, margin 

Pride. Phil, ii : 5 . Grace of humility 
is a rare fruit. 

Passion. Eph. iv:3i; Pro v. xxv:28. 

Covetousness. Heb. xiii:5; Phil. iv:. 
11; I Tim. vi:io; Eph. v:3. 

Love of the world. Rom. xiii 2; I 
Johnii:i5; Gal. vi:i4. , 

Flesh pleasing. Rom. viii:4~8; James. 
v:5; II Tim. iii:4; Rom. xiii; 14; Luke ix: 
23, 24. Col. iii : 5 . 

Uncharitableness . Eph. v:i, 2; I Cor. 
xiii: 4, 5; Heb. x:24; I John iii: 1 7. 

Words. (Tongue sins.) Have we not 
often been dumb when we should have 
spoken out ? II Tim: i:8. 

Sin in a child of God if unconfessed. 
What are the results ? 

1. Lord's absence. He hath said, Lo, 
I am with you always. I will never leave 
thee or forsake thee; all blessedly true. 
But he asks: Can two walk together ex- 
cept they be agreed ? The light withdraws 
and leaves the soul in darkness. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



55 



See Hos. v:i5. The picture of a child 
who has not owned his fault. Absence 
of the Lord. Oh! what does this not 
mean. Oh! what darkness; what unrest, 
what storms, what heavy burdens, what 
heart ache. 

But mark, it is only till confess. 

2. Loss of fellowship. I John i:6, 7. 
Is this not so? How about the means of 
grace ? The closet, family altar, public 
service. You once held sweet counsel 
together, but what's the trouble ? Uncon- 
fessed sin. 

3. Weakness before our enemies. 
Oh, how weak when we should be 

mighty before God and man. Deut.i:42. 
45; Jud. xvi:-o; Josh. vii:i2, 13, 19. 

4. Affliction and Punishment. Oh, how 
much of this we should be spared if we 
would but be honest with ourselves and 
our "' Father, - ' but we treat sin so lightly 
and look too often upon it as a little 
thing, and we get exalted even in our sins, 
and God must humble us, and sin unre- 
proved results in God's having to withhold 
from us many things which would bring to 
us real joy and happiness. What think you 
of such passages as the following: Matt. 
xii:36, 37. Eph. iv:29, 31; Col. iii :8, 10. 

5. Spiritual sloth fulness. Rev. iii: 1-3; 
Rev. iii: 14, 15; Mark xvi:i,5; John xvii: 
18; Hos. vi:4. 

6. Unbelief. Mark xi:22; Rev. iii:i2: 

7. Barrenness. What little fruit. John 
xv:i6; Luke xiii:g. 

God does not need to be told of our 
faults. He knows unconfessed sin in a 
child of God will sooner or later bring him 
under the rod of a loving but righteous 
Father. I Cor. xi:30, 32; Heb. xii:6; Hos.. 
v:i5. 

CONDITIONS OF RESTORATION. 

I Johni:S, 9. The confession must be: 

1. Personal. Not we have sinned, but I 

have; not have mercy on us, but have 

mercy on me. Job vii::o; Dan. ix:2o; Ps. 

xxxii:^; Luke xv:2i. 



2. Prompt. Immediate acknowledg- 
ment. The instant the sin presents 
itself, we cannot afford to carry it, present 
confession means present forgiveness. 
Short reckoning makes long friends. Isa. 
i:i8. 

3. Particular. Not a general confes- 
sion. That one sin name it, acknowledge 
it, get down to facts. The silent sin 
which makes so much unhappiness, known 
only to yourself and God. Lev. v:5; Ps. 
li: 4 . 

4. Forsaking. The confession may be 
prompt, personal and particular, and yet 
if there be not the abhorrence of the sin, 
that utter abandonment of the evil, there 
will be no pardon. Prov. xxviii:i3; II 
Chron. vii:i4; II Cor. vii:8-n; Luke 
xv:i8, etc. 

ENCOURAGEMENT. 

Is it possible to repeat transgression be- 
yond the limit of mercy? or can pardon 
always be found? I John i:g. 

God's mercy. The vastness of God's 
mercy. There is a wideness in God's 
mercy like the wideness of the sea, but is 
there any encouragement apart from God's 
justice ? 

At the cross there is room. Titus ii: T4. 

God's justice. Just, because of the fact 
that all sin hath been borne by the sinless 
One. I Pet. ii : 24.. 

God's promises. Faithful, Heb. x:23. 
He hath promised, and cannot go back on 
His word. 

Gods covenant. I John i:9. He and 

we; Isa. Iiv:7-i9; Jer. xxxii:4o; Heb. 

viii:6-i2; II Sam. xxiii:5; Jer. xxxi:3i, 

33; Heb. x:i6-22; Isa. lv:3; Ezek. xxxvii: 

6; Mai. iii:i, 6. 

Hos. v:i5. Consider your ways. Ex- 
amine yourself. Judge yourself, and the 
result will be, Hos. vi:i. 

He will heel. Sin leaves sore and pain- 
ful wounds. Will heal whom? Isa. lvii: 
18. Compare 9th v. 

Hos. xiv:4-5. I will heal. I will love. 



56 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I will be as the dew, not as the dew that 
passeth away. 

How can God do this and maintain His 
justice. See 4th v. What hath removed 
the anger? The cross appeased God's 
anger forever. Blood the healing balm. 
See Hos. xi:o/, II Kings xxii: i 8-20. Con- 
ditions, Hos. xiv:i, etc. 

This brings us to the only provision 
made for sin, the blood. 

The blood. It is a blood-sprinkled 
path all the way, and if we get out of the 
path, there will be no shelter by the blood. 
We are in danger, and the sooner we get 
back to the path of safety the better. 
god's provision. 

I John ii:i. Advocacy, advocate ? Com- 
forter, helper, defender. One who under- 
takes the case of another. 

1. He took our place and bore the pen- 
alty of our sin. He stood instead of the 
culprit. Rom. v:7, S. A solicitor stands 
in the guilty prisoner's place in order that 
his client may go free. That is what the 
Son of God hath done. But is that all ? 
Actsv:3i; Heb. vii:2.s; ix:n, 12. He 
Himself an advocate before God to save 
from guilt and power of sin. 

2. Thus He undertakes the believer's 
place for life (a) He in person before God, 
advocate to save from guilt of sin. 

(b) He in per9on of the Spirit in the 
heart, advocate to save from the power of 
sin. 

His Ability. I John ii:i. Set forth 
here. The name Jesus, human, knows 
all our need. The name that links Him 
with humanity, Jesus. Sympathy, C/uist. 
Messiah's anointed, sent one from God, 
divine, almighty, Christ, power. 

Righteous, spotless, pure, holy. The 
only ground, or basis by which He can 
claim our acquittal, none other could do 
the work. 

He stands before God, not simply be- 
cause he is one with God; not simply be- 
cause He is sinless, but ^because of His 



righteous offering for sin. Having met 
all claims He stands before God as the 
one who has a just right to demand for- 
giveness, pardon and life to all who put 
their trust in Him. He is no mere sup- 
pliant, He pleads for us on the ground of 
justice and righteousness. 

The Father. Advocacy. God's family 
blessing. The child of God only can find 
comfort here. Let us never forget the 
relationship; the advocate is our kinsman, 
brother, and the one with whom He pleads 
is our Father. 

With the Father, what comfort here. 

We — blood and faithfulness. He. I 
John i:9. 

We — advocacy and acceptance — Father. 
I John ii:r. 

Another word, without which with all 
the rest of no account. 

We have. I have the sinless advocate 
with the Father for me. 

If I confess my sin, He is faithful and 
just to forgive vie my sin, and cleanse me 
from all unrighteousness. 

What should be our prayer ? Ps. xxvi: 
2; Ps. cxxxix:23, 24. 



FRUIT-BEARING. 
John xv. 

1. Essentials (a) Life; (b) Growth. 

2. Source? When? Where? 

3. Kind. 

4. Quality. 

5. Purpose — God's Choice; Sover- 
eignty, etc. 

6. Purpose in the Vine. 

7. Purpose in the Branches. 

8. How? 

1. 
Essentials, Life and Growth, 
(a) Life Matt, xii: 33; which implies: 
1. Death, 2. Resurrection. John xii 124. 
3. Union, 4. Dependence. John xv: 1-5. 
5. Nurture, Care, Air, Light, Watch- 
fulness, etc. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



57 



6. Cultivation. Pruning, Purging, etc. 

I am He that came, etc,; Life more 
abundantly. John x: 10. 

All Life in Him. I John v:ii, 12. 

Apart from Him, No Life, Dead. 

Vital union with Christ or No Life, no 
fruit. Rom. vi: 21-23. 

Men do not gather figs from thorns, 
nor does God gather His fruit from any 
save the branches of the vine 

Men do not gather grapes from thistles. 
nor does God gather heavenly clusters 
from unregenerated and corrupt human 
nature. 

Not mechanically and externally united 
to the church only. 

An essential to life is growth, and not 
to grow is to die. 

(b) Growth. Ps. i: 3; I Peter v: 10, 11. 
R. V.; I Pet. i: 23. 

The inner life is what we need to see 
to, and the outer life will be all right. "It 
is God that worketh in you," etc, "Christ 
in you," etc. "Consider the lilies, how 
they grow," etc. The Christian life is 
not so much an exhibition as a revelation, 
as is all life, vegetable, animal, human, 
spiritual, each revealing, manifesting its 
own inner nature. 

Growth is a noiseless advancement, no 
commotion, no effort, no self-assertion, 
yet expands, develops, multiplies, etc. 

What is the Life? 

"I am the vine, ye are the branches." 

Behold the "ye." When Christ spoke 
these words and the "ye" of to-day 
What marvelous growth! The mustard 
seed has become a mighty tree. What a 
glorious, far-extending, wide spreading 
vine! How the branches are now being 
extended! North, South, East, West, it 
spreads, it is dropping its fruits in every 
land, and almost in every tongue. 

"After its kind," see Genesis. 

Like produces like; all governed by the 
source. The true vine and the true 
branches have one common life, so much 



so that the branches make up the vine 
character. (Illust. Dr. Judson called 
by the natives, "The Jesus Christ man.") 

What of the Life, the Growth? 

Are we branch-producing branches? Are 
other branches being added to the vine by 
our development in this Divine Life? 

See Gen. xii: 2; Abraham, "Thou shalt 
be a blessing." Is it so with us, not only 
receiving the blessing, but the blessed, 
heaven-like purpose of life, "Be a bless- 
ing." 

Grow, see Ps. xcii: 12, 14. The palm 
tree ceases to grow only when it dies all 
the year round, evergreen, ever-growing 

c. f. Mark iv: 28, 29. 1. Blade. 2. 
Ear. 3. Full corn. 4. Ripe fruit. 

c. f. I John, Little children, young 
men, fathers. 

As the beginning of Spiritual or Divine 
Life all depends on our union with Christ 
by or through the Holy Spirit. 

So does the maintenance of the life! As 
it begins it proceeds. 
11. 

1. Source, or whence? Hos. xiv: 8. 
From me. 

In Section 1 we saw Union, that is: 1. 
In Christ, 2. Christ In. 

John xv: 4, 8, Herein. 

Gal. v. 22; Fruit of the Spirit is Love. 

Philemon v. 6. Whose love? Rom. v: 5. 

Rom. viii: 32; "With Him" "all 
things." 

Acts xxi: 19; Isa. lvii: 19. 

Phil, ii: 13; see I Cor. iii: 6. 

Spiritual excellence results of the in- 
dwelling of the Holy Spirit. 

John i: :6. Filled with His fullness. 

Phil, i: 11; Which are by Jesus Christ. 

John xv : 5. 

Compare Ps. Ixii: 5, lxxxvii: 7, 1. c. 

Christ the S^eit, the tree its trunk, 
branches, leaves, blossoms and fruit, all 
hidden in the seed. 

Nothing until we are in Him, and 
nothing after we are in Him only as we 



5» 



NOTES FOR EIBLE READINGS. 



abide in Him and draw life from Him. 
Paul — "By the Grace of God I am what 
I am," 

2. When? 

Markiv: 2S; Ps. 1:3; Luke xiii: 7. 
Mark xi: 13, some trees much longer 
than others in bearing fruit Jas. v: 7. 
See Jer. xvii: 8; Ps. xcii: 14. 
The tij?ie is shortened. 

3. Where? 

Go home to Thy friends, etc. 

Go work to-day in my vineyard. 

Beside all waters. 
Wherever planted. 

All the trees in God's garden are fruit 
trees. 

Bad fruit will grow almost anywhere. 
Good fruit not so. We in the tropics of 
Grace, what advantages! Ps. i: — ; Jer. xvii: 
— ; Johnxv: — . Our fruitfulness depends 
on character (inside) not on circumstances 
(outside). 

in. 

Kind— What is Fruit? 

The kind then depends altogether on 
the tree; the plant the seed, See Matt, 
xii: 33; vii: 16, 17. 

As the tree so is the fruit; an unaltera- 
ble law, Rom: xi: 16. 

See Rom. vi: 2:; vii: 5. Flesh. 

Contrast Rom. vii: 4; vi: 22. Spirit. 

See also, Gal. v: 19-21. Flesh. 

Contrast Gal. v: 22-23, Spirit. 

Only one spiritual Seed; only one True 
Vine; only one Tree of Life, Christ Jesus. 

Fruft after its kind, Luke vi: 43-45. 
Gen. i: 11. 

If in Christ then Christ fruit is the kind. 

If planted in Him we shall reproduce 
Him. 

The fruit we are to look for is the vari- 
ous manifestations of the Life of Him 
who lives in us. Thus every believer is 
but a branch of the one vine, a part of the 
one tree. Life from the one seed. Yet 
there is a variety of fruit. Song of Sol. 
iv: 13-16; Gal. v: 22. — =" 



1. Goodness. Jer. xi: 6; Jas. iii: 17. 

2. Righteousness. Jas. iii: iS: Pro v. 
xii: 12; Phil, i: n; Heb. xii: 11. 

3. Truth. Eph. v: 9; see Lukeviii: 11 ; 
John xvii: 17, and Matt, xiii: 38 m. c. 

4. Holiness. Rom. vi: 22. 
Knowledge. Col. i: 10; II Pet. i: 8. 
Praise. Heb. xiii: 15. 
Liberality. Phil, iv: 17. 
Everlasting. John xv: 16; iv: 36. 

9. Hope. Col. i: 5, 6. 

10. Christ likeness. Phil, i: 20-22. 
Souls! Rom. i: 13. 

Three words Works — flesh, Leaves — 
profession, Fruit — spirit. 

If not in Christ and Christ not in us, 
what fruit? Only works, dead works! 
Unfruitful works of darkness. Gal. vi:7, 8. 

What shall the Harvest be ? 

IV. 

Quality, how much? 
Notice. 

1. John xv: 16. Fruit, Union. 

2. John xv: 2. More fruit; Praying. 

3. John xv: 8. Much fruit; Abiding. 
Quality first, then quantity; not so much 

the abundance as the pureness, sweetness, 
richness, yet He looks for a large Har- 
vest- 

See Matt, xiii: 8, thirty, sixty, and one 
hundredfold; Ps. lxxii: i6. 

The Lord is not pleased with mere sam- 
ple fruit, no matter how good it may be. 

Mitch fruit, not sample fruit. 

Fruit/W trees and fruitful vines are the 
delight of the owners. What must be the 
feelings of our Lord as he comes looking 
through His garden, His vineyard. 
Many trees, vines, with "nothing but 
leaves," and many with merely a sample 
of fruit. 

Abundant Life. John x: 10. 

Abundant Peace, great peace, perfect 
peace, peace passing all understanding. 

Abundant Joy. Johnxv: 11; fulness of 
joy, Acts xiii: 52; rejoicing always, rejoice 
evermore, with exceeding joy. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



59 



Abundant Faith; full assurance of faith, 
Heb. x: 22: Jer. xvii, - 

Prayer, whatsoever. How frequent? 
How long? how real? 

Fruitful m Good Works. I Cor. xv; 5S; 
Col i: IC 

How many are gladdened by Dorcases 
of to-day. 

Abundant Liberality. II Cor. viii: 7. 

Abundant Hope. Rom. xv: 13. 

Abundant Love. What is God's meas- 
ure of love? John iii: 16. Hereby, I John 
iii: 16. 

1. Love to God, because of His love 
to us, I John iv: 19. 

2. Love to each other. "Love one 
another," how much? Johnxv: 12; I John 
iii: 16; iv: 11. See Heb- x: 24; I Pet. 
i: 22; I Thess. iv: 9. 10; iii: 12; seel Cor. 
xiii. 

THE HARVEST. 

He hath sown bountifully, what has He 
a right to expect? 

v. — god's purpose. 

Choice. John xv:i6, 7, S. Chosen, or- 
dained or appointed, no room for boast- 
ing, all of grace. He made choice of us 
from among the wild olive, and hath 
grafted us in the good olive. Rom. xi:i7, 
24, iS. 

The purpose of eternal love is one 
aspect of God's love we think far too little 
of. God's love in Christ toward us is far 
reaching. 

Past — beginning. 

Present — choice. 

Future — end. 

His love is no impulsive sort of affec- 
tion. Everlasting. Jer. xxxi:3. 

"I. have chosen you," "called," "elect," 
"predestinated," "chosen." What mar- 
velous grace! Oh, how it should humble 
us before Him. Though we may not be 
able to fathom this mystery, we can and 
should take great joy from the revealed 
fact. 

Past. I Pet. i:2; Matt. xiii:35; Luke 



x:24; Col. i:26, 27; I Pet. i:2C, and II 
Tim.i:9, with Eph. i:4. 

In Him we behold the church of God. 
In the divine purpose the chosen and the 
head, we behold as one. In Him God's 
purpose was etifolded from eternity, and 
through Him it is now progressively being 
unfolded. 

Present. Acts xv.14; Eph. ii:i, 3, 12, 
13; iii:9-n; II Tim. i:9, 10. 

The present dispensation of grace, does 
not lead us to look for the conversion of 
the world. Acts xv: 14-16. But see also 
Ps. xxii:27, 28; Rev. xi:i5. 

Future. Isa. xlix:6. Rom. xi::5, 26, 

IS- 

How large God's scheme of mercy! 
From the beginning on to the end. One 
fixed, unchanging purpose governs all. 
And what of the future as to the end? 
Rom. viii:3o; Matt. xxv:?4; Eph. i:4"i4; 
ii - 7; Rev. vii :g-i 7. 

But notice just here this truth, viz.: 
"God's sovereignty and man's responsi- 
bility." John iii:i6; Ezek. xxxiii:i 1 ; II 
Pet. iii:g; Matt. xi:28, Rev. xxir.17; 
Matt. xx:J6; Matt. xxii:i4; John vi: 
35-40. Instead of prying into its hidden 
mystery, and quibbling and fault-finding, 
see Acts xv.iS; I Cor. i: 28-31 ; Rom. xi: 
33-3 6 - 

VI. — god's purpose in the vine. 

What is the ultimate end of tree or vine? 
Fruit. 

What is the glory of the vine? Fruit. 

Behold the mysterious union of the vine 
and the branches. Isa. lxi:l~3; Jer. xiii: 
11; John xvii:22; Rom. viii:2g, 30; John 
i:i6; I Pet. ii:g; John xv:i-8. 

The glory of God, the final cause of all 
things in natuie and grace. Ps. xix:i, 
with Matt, vi: 8, 29, and Num. xiv:2i; 
with Isa. vi:3. 

Nowhere do we behold the grace of 
God as in the person of his Son. 

1. For what purpose was "the Son of 
God" sent into the world ? To glorify 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



God. I have revealed to man all that was 
in thine heart. I have so reproduced thee, 
thy love; proven thy faithfulness, thy 
covenant promises, displayed the riches of 
thy boundless grace, magnified thy right- 
eousness in the perfection of thy holy law. 
I have glorified thee on the earth. John 
xvii:4> 

Heb v:5. " Christ glorified not Him- 
self." 

John 1:14. "The glory as of the only 
begotten (from) the Father." 

John vii:i8. "He seeketh His glory 
that sent Him." 

John viii:50. "I seek not mine own 
glory." 

John xii:27, 28. "Father, glorify Thy 
name." 

John xiir.31, 32. "God is glorified in 
Him." 

2. How did " the Son of God" glorify 
God ! 

By a life of loving obedience. Heb. v: 
8. 

He came not at His own charges — He 
was not His own. He was sent by God 
to do His (God the Father's) will. 

Compare Ps. xl:7, 8; Luke ii .49; John 
ii: 17; John iv:34; v:3o; (also over thirty 
other passages in St. John's gospel where 
it is recorded that He was sent); Matt. 
xxvi:39, 4 2 ! J onn xix:30. 

3. In the end, in the coming glory, this 
will be manifest and acknowledged by 
all. 

Phil. ii:6 to 11. To the glory of God 
the Father. 

I Cor. xv:27, 28. That God may be 
all in all. 

Looking at the vine, must we not say 
that it bends with its abundant fruit ? 
How about the branches ? 
vii. — god's purpose in the branches. 

(a) In regard to choice and election. 

(b) In regard to the product or fruit. 
In John' xvii:22; Rom. viii:29, 30; 

John i:i6; John xvi-8, etc., we saw the 



mysterious union of the vine and the 
branches — One ! So that if the purpose of 
God in Christ was that He should bring 
forth fruit to the glory of the Father, 
equally so is it His purpose that every 
believer in Christ should bear fruit to the 
glory of God. John xvii:i8. 

1. In His gospel. Rom. i: 16, 17; Isa. 
lxi:i-3; Luke iv: 17-2 1. 

2. In His salvation. I Pet. ii:g: II 
Cor. iv:6, 7; II Thess. ii: 13, 14. 

3. In His regeneration. Eph. ii:io; 
Isa. xliii: 1, 7, 10. 

4. In His redemption. Eph i:7, 12; I 
Cor. vi:20. 

Who owns the plant, the tree, the life ? 
See Solomon's Song iv: ;6; 8:12. 

What are we living for ? Who are we 
living for? Solomon's Song, vi:2. 

Oh, how He loves to partake of the 
precious fruit out of His own garden. 
Trees of His own planting. Cannot we 
repeat the response in Solomon's Song, 
iv:i6. His own bride, Rom. vii .4. Oh, 
to live so as to satisfy the heart of Him 
who loved me, and gave Himself for me. 
Not your own, redeemed, therefore, I 
Cor. vi::o. What fruit ? 

5. In adoption. Eph. i:5, 6. 

6. In gift of 'the Spirit. Eph. i: 1 3, 14. 
John xiv:i7; I Cor. iii:i6; John xvi:i4; 
I Cor. vi:i9, 20. 

Who owns the house ? Who has the 
right to occupy ? Who does occupy ? Isa. 
xliii: 1 ; I Cor. iii:i6; Col. i:2y. 

See Ps. xxix:9. Doth every one speak 
of His glory ? (See margin.) 

7. In the unity of the body of Christ. 
John xv:5. Mark the language, not 

Christ with us, but Christ and we tmitedly 
one, not our life, a life like Christ's, but 
one and the same life; the same life in 
every branch, as in the vine. 

I Cor. i:io, 11, 12, 13; I Cor. xii: 
13-27; John xvii:2i-23. The church /j 
one. We have not to make this a fact ; it 
is a grand, gloi ious fact. The bridegroom 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



61 



and the bride are one. One bridegroom, 
one bride, one body. The church is not 
a union. She is a unit. We know in 
some measure the blessedness of relation 
to Christ. What of the blessedness of re- 
tion to each other ? What we admit as a 
fact, let us treat as a fact. Eph. iv:i-6. 

John xvii.20, 21. The measure of the 
unity. 

''As thou Father art in me and I in 
thee." 

The mea/is of the unity. 

"That they also may be one in us." 

The object or aim of the unity. 

"That they may be perfect in one (or 
perfectly manifest as one), and that ihe 
world may believe that Thou hast sent 
me," etc. 

Whatever manifests the unity of the 
church of Christ, glorifies God. Oh, 
how the glory of God is covered up, 
hidden. 

8. In the ages to come. Rom. v. 2; 
Matt, xxv.31; Isa. lx.2 ; Eph. ii.4-7; 
Rev. vii:n, 12; Eph. i: 18; II Thess. i.io; 
Eph. iii:20, 21. 

"He is worthy." I Chron. xxix:io-i3; 
Rev. v:8-i4; Rev. iv:8-li. 

The} e fore. I Cor. x.31. We cannot 
be mistaken as to God's purpose for the 
branches, John xv;8. What shall the 
fruit be ? 

VIII. 
HOW CAN WE GLORIFY GOD? 

We cannot add to his essential glory, 
still we can glorify God in many ways. 

1. By confession of sin. Josh. vii. 19; 
Prov. xxviii: 13; Ps. xxxii: 5. 

2. By placing our trust in Him. 
Rom; iv: 20; John xi: 40; Mark ix: 23. 

"He is faithful that hath promised." 
Oh, how much we need this in these 
days of mistrust, when there is so much 
subtile unbelief, even in the professed 
followers of the Lord. Is not the Scrip- 
ture practically reversed to a very large 
extent by us? "We walk by sight, not 



by faith." 1 Such a walk cannot glorify 
God. Take heed. Heb. iii: 12. 
See I Pet. i: 7. 

3. By acknowledgment of what God 
hath done for us in Christ. Luke xvii: 
15; xviii. 43. The nine thankless lepers 
have had thousands of followers. The 
Samaritan stranger glorified God with a 
loud voice, c. f. Ps. Ixvi: 16. What an 
amount of mean, unthankful Christianty 
in this day of so-called refinement, when 
many are shocked if a dear christian soul, 
filled with gratitude to God, gives expres- 
sion to his feelings to the glory of God. 
Brothers, confess Christ's goodness, even 
if you should be called "a fool" by the 
worldly-wise. c. f. Ps. 1: 23: lxxxvi: 12. 

4. By confessing Christ to be Lord and 
God. Luke xxiii: 47; Phil, ii: 11. 

5. By praise. Ps. lxxxvi: 12; 1: 23. 
How often words of commendation and 

praise are received by us, and although 
outwardly turned over to God, are they 
not too often secretly taken to ourselves? 
Thanksgiving is God exalting work. 
Have we not "the garment of praise" in 
Isa. lxi: 3? Then why are our lips sealed? 
Something wrong! They must be puri- 
fied. Isa. vi: 5-7. Read also, carefully, 
Ps. Ii: 15; with Jer. i: 8, 9; Prov. x: 21, 
32; Ps. lxiii: 3, 6; Ps. xxxiv: 1, 3; Ps. 
lxxi: 14, 15, 23, 24; Luke i: 46; also 
Heb. xiii: 15, withlsa. lvii: 19. 

6. By praye) . John xiv: 13. Matt, 
xviii: 19; vi. 6. 

Whatsoever! Is it possible? Possible! 
see Mark ix: 23. 

7. By letting our light shine. Matt, 
v. 16. c. f. Phil. ii. 13. 

If we do not let our light shine, we 
must hide it, we cannot be negative on this 
point, and to let our light shine we must 
hide ourselves. See also I Pet. ii. 12; and 
II Thess. i: 11, 12; Tit. ii: 14; iii: 8; I 
Cor. xv : 58. 

8. By a Holy Life. I Pet. i: 14, 16; 
Phil, i: 11. c. f. Isa. lxi: 3; Isa. Ix: 21. 



62 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



g. By pt caching the Gospel. Mark xvi: 
15; I Pet. iv: ii, Acts xi 14, iS. Paul, 
Wesley, Carey, etc. Is it so with us? 
Publicly or privately. 

10. By utif altering, uncompromising 
fidelity and obedience. Luke vi. 46; 
John vii: 16, 18; R. V. Acts v: 29; 
Dan. vi: 26, 27. 

11. By Unity and Love. Rom. xv. r, 
7; John xvii. 21, 22, II Chron. v. 13, 14; 
Heb. x: 24. 

12. By Christian Liberality. II Cor. 
viii: 1,4; ix; 12, 13, I Chron. xxix 9, 14. 

13. By patient, humble suffering and 
bearing reproach for His name. I Cor. 
i: 26, 31; I Pet. iv. 16; Acts v. 41; II 
Cor. iv: 10, 11; II Cor. xii: 9, 10. 

The glory of God shines forth in greater 
luster and manifest brightness because of 
the clouds and storms of Trial, Tempta- 
tion and Sorrow. The rainbow is the 
more splendid when seen on the darkest 
background. See Rom. viii: 17. 

Some weeds to get rid of. Col. iii: 8, 9. 

Read in conclusion. Rom. v: 2; John 
xvii: 22, 24; II Thess. i: 10; Col. iii: 4. 

Warning. Dan. v: 22, 27; Mai. ii: 2. 
Actsxii:2i, 23. Prayer. Ps. lxxixig. 

FRUIT-BEARING. 

Ps. XCii: 12, 15. 

1. The Command — By God. Gen. i: 
22, 28; viii: 17; ix 1, 7. By Christ, 
John xv : 16. 

2. The source of fruit — God. From 
Him. To Him. 

"From Me is thy fruit found," Hosea 
xiv: 8. 

"His fruit was sweet to my taste." Sol- 
omon's Songs ii: 3. 

From Him — "First fruits . . which 
Thou, oh Lord, hath given me." Deut. 
xxvi: 10. 

To Him— First of ripe fruits; "First- 
born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me." 
Ex. xxii: 29: Ex. xxiii: 19. 

3. Fruits only by union with Christ. 



Rom. vii. 4, 5; viii; 8. "When we were 
in the flesh, the motions of sins.... did 
work in our members to bring forth fruit 
unto death." Rom. vii. 5. 

4. God's order — Freedom from Sin, 
etc. Rom. vi: 22; v. 21. 1. Freedom 
from sin. 2. Service to God. 3. Fruit. 
4. Everlasting life — End. 

A contrast — Works of flesh — Fruit of 
Spirit. Gal. v: 19-23. 

Works. Vs. 19, etc: "The works of 
the flesh are these; Adultery," etc. 

Fruit. Vs. 23, etc: "The fruit of the 
Spirit is love, joy, peace," etc. 

5. Fruit of various kinds. 

1. Abounding fruit. Communication. 
Phil, iv: 17; Rom. xv. 28. 

2. Peaceable fruit — by chastening. 
Heb. xii 1 1. 

3. Three stages of fruit— "Fruit," 
"more," "much" John xv. 

3. Fruit of the lips. Praise to God 
alway. Heb. xiii: 15, Isa. lvii: 19. 

5. Fruit in the life — Holiness: Rom. 
vi: 22. 

6. Fruit of Labor. Soul winning, 
Prov. xi: 30. 

7. Fruitful in every good work. Col. 
i: 10. 

"He that abideth in Me, and I in Him, 
the same bringeth forth much fruit" 
John xv : 5. 

6. Conditions of fruit-bearing. 

1. The double union of John xv. "Ye 
in Me, I in you." 

2 The walk. Avoiding ungodly. See 
three stages, etc. Ps. i. 1, 3. 

3. "Have no fellowship with unfruit- 
ful works of darkness." etc. Eph. v: 11. 

4. "Filled with the knowledge," etc. 
and "walk worthy of the Lord." Col. i. 
9, 10. 

5. Abide in the sun. Precious fruits 
brought forth by the sun. Deut. xxxiii.14. 

6. In the house of the Lord. Ps. xcii: 

13- 

Footsteps of Truth. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



63 



GRACE 



1. We need grace. Rom. vii:2i-23. 

2. Grace is free for every need. Phil. 
iv:i9, 

3. Is plentiful for every need. Eph. 
iv.7. 

4. Is powerful for every need. Acts. 
xx:32. 

II. — MEANS OF GBACE. 

1. The sanctuary, Ps. lxxxiv.4-10. 

2. The Bible. II Tim. iii : 1 5 , 16. 

3. Prayer. Heb. iv.16. 

4. Testimony. Rom. x:o„ 10. 

III. 

1. We receive grace — From God. II 
Cor. ix:8. Through Christ. John i: 17. 

2. It is given to — Those who love 
Christ. Eph. vi.24. Those who have 
faith. Rom. v:i, 2. The humble. I 
Pet. v:5. 

3. By it we are — Justified. Rom. iii: 
24. Regenerated. I. Cor. xv:io, f. c. 
Strengthened. II Tim. iii. 

4. Through it we have — The gift of 
Christ. Heb. ii:o,. Salvation. Titus 
ii:ii. Forgiveness. Eph. i:7, 8. Joy. 
Acts xi:23. 

5. By it we can — Work. I Cor. xv:io. 
Overcome. I Cor. x.13. 

6. We should — Grow in grace. II 
Pet. iii:i8. Continue in g:ace. Acts 
jciii:43. Stand fast in grace. I Pet. v:i2. 
(R. V.) Help others to grow. I Pet. 
iv:io. 

IV. 

God's grace to be revealed in its great 
beauty and fullness in ages to come. Eph. 
di 17. • Herbert Snell. 



GRACE. 

What is grace ? It is often on our lips 
but how little understood and realized, and 
much less appreciated. 

1. God's good will and free, unmerited 
favor. 



2. The unmerited goodness of God 
shown to fallen man. 

3. Free and eternal love and favor qf 
God, the spring of all the benefits we re- 
ceive from Him. 

4. The moral attitude which God is 
pleased to assume toward man. 

5. Unbought love, undeserved mercy, 
unmerited favor. 

6. Grace the child of Love and the par- 
ent of Mercy. 

7. Grace of God, that which we get, 
that we do not deserve. 

There is not a word in the Bible more 
expressive of the true character of God, 
and not a word in the whole Gospel of 
greater import to us, than the grace of 
God. Free grace is everything for noth- 
ing. It is the keynote of the Bible. 

DEBTORS. 

Whatever way we look at Grace, it 
brings us in as debtors. Otherwise it is 
not grace. 

No grace — no Saviour. No Saviour — 
no salvation. 

No salvation — no hope. No hope — 
no heaven. 

No heaven — nothing — nothing but eter- 
nal despair and hell, 

1. In Relation to God. Acts xx:24, 
Grace of God. 

II Cor. vi:i. Grace of God. 
I Pet. v:io. God of all grace. 
The Lord God, merciful and gracious. 
Ex. xxxiv/). 

2 . In Relation to Christ. J ohn i : : 7 ; 1 : 1 4. 
Full of grace, grace incarnate. Not till 
the revelation of God in person do we be- 
hold or understand what grace is. The 
great mystery God manifested in the flesh. 
The greatest of all mysteries, Grace. 

3. In Relation to the Holy Spirit. 
Zech. xii:io. Spirit of Grace. Heb. ii:g. 
No Comforter. No Teacher. No Guide, 
No Strength. No Power, but for the 
Spirit of Grace. 

4. In Relation to the Woid. Acts 



6 4 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



xiv:iih The Word of His Grace. Acts 
xx. 3 2. Qn every page we behold the man 
if,old Grace of God. I Pet. iv:io. 

5. In Relation to the Gospel. Acts 
xx:24. The Gospel of the Grace of God 

THE EXTENT OF GRACE. 

What God Himself has to say of His 
Grace. 

Riches of Grace. Eph. 1:7. Great 
Grace. Acts iv:33. Abounding Grace. 
Rom. v:i5« Exceeding Grace. II Cor. 
ix:i4. Exceeding riches of Grace. Eph. 
ii.7. Exceeding abundant Grace. I Tim. 
1:14. Manifold Grace. I Pet. iv.io. 
All sufficient Grace. II Cor. xiirg. All 
abounding Grace. II Cor. iv: 15; II Cor. 
ix;8. Grace upon Grace. John i: 1 6. 
Grace according to the measure of the 
Gift of God. Eph. iv:7 

What G?'ace has done. 

1. Provided a Saviour. Luke ii:30. 
John i: 14. Titus ii:ii.. 

Grace came in the person of Him who 
is the fullness of Grace. What an exhi- 
bition of it we see in the Manger. It 
might have a blaze on every star. The 
heavens might have been literally covered 
with it so that all eyes might gaze upon it. 
But to what effect? We should never 
have known its power. But when we turn 
to the "Star of Bethlehem" and behold 
the incarnate Son of God, full of Grace and 
Truth, we are no longer left to doubt the 
truth of Johniii:i6; I John iv:io; I John 
iii:i. 

2. Grace paid the Debt. Heb. ii:g. 
Amazing Grace. "Debtors." 

3. Grace Calls. II Tim, i:9; Gal. 1:15. 

4. Grace Forgives. Eph. i:7; Rom v:2o. 
Grace abounding to forgive. Sin is the 

object of Wrath. The Sinner is the ob- 
ject of Grace. Abounding Sin is the object 
of abounding Grace. Abounding Grace 
is the object of abounding Sin. 

Much more. Whatever the extent of 
Sin, Grace reaches beyond it. 

5. Grace brings Salvation^ 'Acts. xv:ii. 



Titus ii:.H; Eph. ii : 5-8. This Grace 
meets our greatest need. Grace comes 
just where we are in the pit- He wants 
to be gracious. Isa. xxx.18. Oh, what 
wondrous grace. 

6. Grace begat Eternal Life. Rom. 
v ; 2 1 . " Righteous grace ; Sovereign grace. 
Rom. v:i5. "Much more." The Gift. 
The Gift by Grace. What is the Gift? 
Rom. vi:23. 

7. G?ace. By it we are Justified. Ti- 
tus iii:7; Rom. iv:4-5; iii: 24 The manner, 
freely. The source, His Grace. 

8. Grace of Adoption. Gal. iii:26. See 
Rom. iv:i6. 

9. Grace of Assurance. I Cor. xv:io. 

10. Present standing in Grace. Rom. 
v:2; vi:i4. Eph. i.6. Always standing 
in Grace before God as the objects of 
His gracious unmerited favor. 

11. Growth in Grace. II Pet. iii: 18. 
No other place to grow. Get out of this 
place and we die. 

12. Established with Grace. Heb. xirkg. 
Any other establishment will fail. 

13. Grace fitting for Service. II Cor. 
ix;8. His Grace to us, the origin of His 
Grace in us. 

14. Grace supporting in Trial. II Cor. 
xii:g. 

1 5 . Grace, the way of access to Prayer. 
Rom. v;i, 2. Heb. iv:i6. "Obtaining 
Grace." "Sustaining Grace." "Restrain- 
ing Grace." "Constraining Grace." 

16. Heirship through Grace. Rom. 
viii: ' 5-17. II Cor. viil.9. Ye know. Do 
we know ? See Phil. iii:i 0-1 2. Oh, how 
much there is here of the "Height" 
"Depth," "Length," and " Breadth" of 
Grace. Do we know it? apprehend it? 
realize it ? What proof? See II Cor. 
viii: 8. 

17. Grace giving Hope. II Thess. ii:i6. 
Titus iino-14. I Pet. i : 1 3. Eph. ii:y. 
"Heavenly Illumination," "God's great 
Exhibition." Angels wonder. Seraphs 
adore. Cherubs are amazed. The whole 



NOTES FOR E1BLE READINGS. 



65 



Heavenly Host join in the anthem of 
Grace. 

Grace ! Grace ' Grace '. Grace and 
Glory ' 

All we have and are is due to Grace. 1 
Cor. xv 10. 

tS. Reigning Grace. Rom. v:2i. 

Take Heed. II Cor. vi:i. 

II Cor. xiii: 14. II Thess. ii: 16-17. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR SERVICE. 

It is no longer a question of Salvation, 
but the manifestation, of Salvation by 
the operation of the Holy Spirit in us 
and through us. It is now a question 
of service by working out salvation. Sal- 
vation and service are very different here. 

No salvation without service, and no 
service without salvation. 

We must have salvation before we can 
serve, and we must serve because we have 
salvation. We cannot help it if we ap 
prehend salvation. 

Calvary and Pentecost are very differ- 
ent; yet both are essential. 

No Salvation short of Calvary, and no 
service short of Pentecost. 

We go to one for Peace, and to the 
other for Power. 

One meets Personal sinners. The other 
makes Personal workers. To be powerful 
workers in the service of God. we must 
have the Power. This Divine Power. 
And not only must we have the Holy 
Spirit, but the Holy Spirit must have us. 
You are no longer your own; ye are 
bought with a Price — Calvary. Know ye 
not that your body is the Temple of the 
Holy Spirit— Pentecost. 

How different the Disciples after Pen- 
tecost. 

We ought not, we cannot, we shall not 
forget Calvary, yet we must not stop here. 
'"The Lord is Risen," and we are His 
witnesses, and therefore we must take our 
place. Crucified, Dead, Buried. Alive 
in Resurrection Life. No longer I, but 
5 



Christ liveth in me. A new man. A 
Christ man. 

And now that this Christ Life may be 
manifest, we need to be filled with the 
Holy Spirit, whose office it is to testify of 
Christ. And to do this He must/?// every 
part of the temple, which Temple we are, 
and the question is not simply. Do I belong 
to God ? but does God, by His Holy Spirit 
dwell in me? Has He got possession? 
Am I His Temple, Vessel, House, Dwell- 
ing-place? See I Cor. vi.ig; I Cor. iii:i6, 
17; Eph. ii:22. 

1. Striving for Entrance. Gen. vi:3. 
Acts vii:5i. Rev. iii:20. 

2. Convincing as to His right to Enter \ 
John xvi.8, 9. Acts ii.37. 

3. Regenerating, or preparing His 
ovm Dwelling-place. John iii ; 3-8. Titus 
iii:5- 

4. At Home. Indwelling. Gal. iv:6. 
Mark, not to make us Sons, but because toe 
are Sons. Rom. viii :g. 

The Temple. A Vessel. Rom. ix:23, 
24. Vessels of mercy, Acts ix:i5. Ves- 
sels chosen, Eph. i 14; Acts ix; 1 5. Ves- 
sels earthen, II Cor. iv:6, 7. Vessels to 
honor, Rom. ix:2i. 

Object. Acts ix:i5. Bear My Name, 
Acts i:8- My witnesses, I Cor. viiig, 20. 
II Cor. vi.:6, 17. Glorify God, John 
vu: 3/-39 Overflow to others, II Cor. 
iv.7 All of God. See Ps cxv:i ; not of us. 

Benefit. II Cor. iv.7. Immense value. 
John xiv:i6. Comforter, Rom. viii. 26. 
Helper, Rom. viii. 26, 27. Intercessor, 
Eph. ii; iS. Access in prayer, John xiv:- 
26; I Cor. ii.13. Teacher, Johnxvi.13; 
Gal. v:i8. Guide, Acts i:8: I Cor. ii:4. 
Power and strength, 

What a Treasure ! The most valuable. 
The vessel earthen. Oh, what worthless- 
ness. Frail; soon broken and gone. God 
would have us be vessels of honor, II 
Tim. ii 2:. See vs. 19-21. How we 
grieve this Heavenly, priceless Treasure, 
by not heeding His Word, 



66 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



" Such a Holy Treasure is deserving of 
a Holy Vessel." See Eph. v:i8; Exodus 
xl:35; II Chron. v: 3, 14; I Kings: viii:io, 
11; Ezek. xliii : 5 ; Ezek. xliv:4. 

He must have "absolute sway." He 
must have every part, and there must be 
no reserve. 

BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT. 



See how He had the entire and perfect 
control of the early Church. Acts iv:8. 
Peter filled Acts vii:55. Stephen full. 
Acts ix:i7, Acts xiii:g. Paul filled. 
Acts. xi:24. Barnabas full. Acts xiii:52. 
Disciples filled. Acts vi:3. Deacons 
full. Acts ii 14. Acts iv:3L. All filled. 

Filled up unto all the fullness of God. 

God pours from filled vessels. 

Spiritual vessels, elastic, living. 

The fuller they are, the more they ex- 
pand. 

Unlike vessels of stone and metal, dead, 
lifeless. 

Are we full ? If not, why ? 

How to get this Fullness. 

Acts i:4. Obedience. Faith. Wait- 
ing on God. 

Luke xxiv:4g. Tarry. Heart-search- 
ing. Self-emptying. 

Actsii:i, 4; iv:3i; Lukexi:i3. Prayer. 

Rom. xii:i,2. Consecration. 

Are we willing to be filled ? For any- 
thing contrary to God's mind must go out. 
There must be an end of Self. 

It is to get "out of self and full of 
God." 

Shall He have all now ? Not that we 
may have all the Spirit, but that the Spirit 
may have all of us. 

He giveth not the Spirit by measure. 
See John vii:37, 39. Col. 1:29. John 
iii:34. 

II. — POWER. 

Power, not fullness, should character- 
ize the Christian Life. 

Power to Witness for Christ, Matthew 
xxviii:i8, 19, 



Power to Overcome Sin. Overcome. 
Habit, Eph. vi:i3, margin. Gal. v:i6. 

Power to Overcome the World, the 
Flesh and the Devil, John xvi:i3; I 
John v'4. 

Power to Live a Holy Life, Gal. ii: 2c»; 
Col. iii.1-3. 

Power to Prevail in Prayer, Acts iv:3i- 
33- 

Power to Endure all things, Phil iv.6, 
■ 9; Ex. xviii.23. (Obey first.) 

Power to Speak out, Mark xi;i3, Acts 
iv:20. 

Power to Be silent. I Cor. iv.21. 

Power to Love all. I John ill : 23 , 24. 

Power to Suffer for Righteousness sake. 
Phil. i:2g; Phil. iii:7-io; I Pet. iv: 19; v: 10. 

Power to Understand the Word. John 
xvi:i3. 

See Luke xxiv:4g. Acts i:8; iii:i2; John 
iv:i7; I Cor. vi:i9; Eph. ii: 19-22. 

I am so weak; Col. i:29; Phil, ii : 13 ; 
I Cor. i:26-29. 

It is weakness God wants; it is weak- 
ness God needs. II Cor. xii:io. 

The presence of the Holy Ghost is the 
presence of Omnipotence. Acts xxiii:9. 

Filled with the Power of an indwelling 
Godhead. John XIVM7-23. 

With men, these things are impossible, 
with God all things are possible. Mark 
x:2i. 

Power belongeth to God, Ps. lxii:ii. 
He giveth Power to the faint, Isa. xl:2g. 

I am full of Power (says Micah) by the 
Spirit of the Lord. Micah iii:S. 

I can do all things (says Paul) through 
Christ, who strengthenethme, Phil, iv: 1 3. 

All Power is given unto me (says Christ 
Himself) both in Heaven and in Earth, 
Matt. xxviii:i8. 

III. — BOLDNESS (OR COURAGE.) 

Order. Emptied. Filled. . Power. Bold- 
ness- 

The Fear of Man, Acts iv.31; v:28, 
29; ix:27-29, xiv.3, xix.S, xviii:9, io, 
Rom. i:i6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE REAUlNOs. 



67 



Why fear? Acts xviiiig, 10. God is for 
11s. Isa. xli:io-i3; Rom. viii:3i; Ps. 
xxvii:3; Ps. lvi:3, 4; II Tim. i:7, S. 

Perfect Love casteth out Fear. If there 
is perfect Love, there will be none of self, 
and there will be the endowment of Power 
and Boldness for Christ. 

IV. — UTTERANCE. 

Why so little testimony for Jesus? 

Acts ii:4; iv:8; viii:4; ix:7-20, xi: 19, 20; 
xix:6. 

Where the Spirit of God is, there is 
Liberty. Acts iv:20; Jer. xx:q; Job xxxii: 
8, 17, iS; I Cor. ix:i6. 

Filled with the Holy Spirit, the remedy 
for silent and dumb Christians, Ps. xliii:3; 
Isa. vi:i-S; Ps. lxiii: 5- 

A channel open at both ends — God-Man. 
God fills, we empty. "Empty of self, 
full of God." We need to know, day by 
•day, not simply how much we can hold, 
but how much we can let pass through. 
It is not a cistern, but a "channel, a well 
springing up." John vii:38, 39. 

V. — UNITY AND FELLOWSHIP. 

Oh, how little of this Christian unity, 
one-ness there is; and what lack of Spir- 
itual Fellowship Love. Why is it we will 
not let the Lord's prayer be answered ? 
John xvii. That they all may be one. 
Why is there so much disobedience ? 
Johnxiii:34, 35 What's the cause? All 
self, and none of the Spirit Power. The 
fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, 
etc., Gal. v.22. See Acts ii:42, iv:32, 
34,35. The Precious Comforter, how 
often quenched by discord. 

VI. — WITNESSES OF CHRIST. 

What sort of a Christ do we witness? 
Many Christians need either to change 
life or drop the name. Acts i:S: v:32; 
viii:26; xxvi:i6, 22. Ye are not your o>cn. 
I Cor. vi: 20, Ye are my Witnesses. Acts 
i.S; Acts ii:32; John xv:26; xvi:i4; Luke 
xxiv:4S. How often false witnesses, guilty 
of perjury, Prow xiv:25. How is it with 



us? Know ye not that your bodies are 
the temple of the Holy Ghost. We are 
blood-bought. False to Christ is fatal to 
souls. 

VII. — CONVERSIONS. 

How few in the Church now ? How 
rare? See the early Church: 

Acts ii:4i. Three thousand. 

Acts iv:4. Five thousand. 

Acts W14. Multitudes. 

Acts vi:7. Multiplied greatly. 

Acts xi:2i. Great number; much peo- 
ple. 

Acts XVK30-34. Household. 

Acts viii:35-3g. Heathen. 

Acts viii:5-8. Great joy in the city. 

Acts ii:47- Added to the Church daily. 

John xvi:8-n; Zech :v:6. Not by 
might, nor by power, but by my Spirit. 

Resist not. Acts vii:5 1-53. Grieve 
not. Eph. iv:29, 30. Quench not. I 
Thess. v:i9, 20. 

Secret of success in the service of 
Christ, is conditional and absolute. Empty 
of Self and full of God. 

Such a life will surely be 

Full of Power, Boldness, Utterance, 
Love, Obedience, Testimony and Success 
in winning souls for the Master. 

Rom. xii:i, 2. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

PERSONALITY. 

1. The Spirit saith. Acts viii:29, I 
Tim. iv:i. 

2. The Spirit sends. Acts x:i9, 20. 

3. " He," the Spirit. Johnxvi:i3. 

4. He shall teach. Johnxiwi6. 

5. The Spirit Himself. Rom. viii: 16. 
(R. V.) 

6. The Spirit gave utterance. Actsii:4. 

DIVINITY. 

1. Equal with the Father. Matthew 
xxviiing. 

2. Sent down from Heaven. I Pet. i: 12, 

3. Sent forth from God. Gal. iv:6. 

4. Gives power for servce. Acts i:8. 



68 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



TITLES AND SYMBOLS OF THE 
HOLY SPIRIT. 

HIS NAMES. 

i. Paraclete. John xiv:26. (R. V. 
marg.) 

2. Holy Spirit. Lukexi:i3. 

3. Spirit of Truth. John xiv:i7. 

4. Spirit of Promise. Eph. i : 1 3. 

5. Spirit of the Lord. Isa. xi:2. 

SYMBOLS. 

1. Water. Isa. xliv:3. 

2. River. John vii:39. 

3. Fire. Acts ii 13; Matt. iii:ii. 

4. Wind. Acts ii:2. 

5. Dove. Matt. iii:i6. 

A. G. M. and T. B. H. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

HIS WORK WITH SINNERS. 

His Personality shown. John xiv:i6,i7. 

To strive. Gen. vi:3- 

To convince of sin, righteousness and 
judgment. John xvi:8. 

Promised to believers. John vii:38. 

Promise fulfilled at the time of accept- 
ing Christ's word. Acts x:44; Acts xi: 
15- 

HIS WORK IN BELIEVERS. 

To teach and remind. John xiv:20 
To guide. Johnxvi:i3; Rom. viiiii^. 
To strengthen. Rom. viii:26. 
To give wisdom and knowledge. I Cor. 
xii:8. 

To give courage. Rom. v:5. 
To give liberty. II Cor. iii : 1 7. 
To fight against lust. Gal. v:i7. 
To intercede for us. Rom. viii:26. 
To unite with Christ. Eph. iv:3, 4. 
Tosealus. II Cor. i:22. 
To dwell in us. IJohniv:-i3. 

Thomas C. Lord. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

1. Convinces. John xvi:8-t I. 

2. Converts (or Regenerates.) John 
iii:5, 8. Titus iii:5. 

3. Comforts. John xrVTto. 



TYPES OF THE FIOLY SPIRIT. 

THE DOVE. 

Jesus being baptized, the heaven was 
opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in 
a bodily shape like a dove upon Him. 
Luke iii:2i, 22. 

FIRE. 

Our God is a consuming fire. Heb. 
xir.29. 

He is like a refiner's fire. Mai. iii:2. 

He shall baptize you with the Holy 
Ghost, and with fire. Matt, iii: 11. 

There appeared unto them cloven 
tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon 
each of them. Acts ii .3, 

WIND. 

The wind bloweth where it listeth 

so is every one that is born of the Spirit* 
John iii ; S. 

There came a sound from heaven as of 
a rushing mighty wind. Actsii:2. 

WATER. 

I will pour water upon him that is 
thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; 
I will pour My Spirit upon thy seed. Isa. 
xliv:3. 

Then I will sprinkle clean water upon 

you, and ye shall be clean I will put 

My Spirit within you. Ezek. xxxvi 125,27. 

He that believeth in Me, out of his 
belly shall flow rivers of living water. 
This spake He of the Spirit. John vii:38, 

39- 

He saved us by the washing of regen- 
eration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. 
Titus iii : 5 . 

OIL. 

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, be- 
cause the Lord hath anointed me. Isa. 
Ixi: 1. 

God anointed Jesus of Xazareth with 
the Holy Ghost, and with power. Acts 
x:38. 

Thou anointest my head with oil. Ps. 
xxiii:5. 

I shall be anointed with fresh oil. Ps» 
xcii:io. ' 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



6 9 



Ye have an unction from the Holy One 
....The anointing which ye have re- 
ceived of Him, abideth in you. I John 
ii:20-27< 

WINE. 

Be not drunk with wine, but be filled 
with the Spirit. Eph. v:iS. 

Others mocking said, these men are full 

of new wine. But Peter said these 

are not drunken, as ye suppose But 

this is that which was spoken by the 
prophet Joel: I will pour out of My Spirit 
upon all flesh. Acts ii.13-17. 

Footsteps of Truth. 



NAMES AND TITLES OF THE 
HOLY SPIRIT. 

THE comforter. 

I will pray the Father, and He shall give 
you another Comforter. John xiv:i6. 

The Comforter, which is the Holy 
Ghost, shall teach you all things. John 
xiv:26. 

When the Comforter is come, He shall 
testify of Me. John xv:26. 

SPIRIT OF TRUTH. 

The Spirit of truth, whom the world 
cannot receive. John xi\M7. 

The Spirit of truth, which proceedeth 
from the Father. John xv:26. 

The Spirit of Truth will guide you into 
all truth. John xvi:i3. 

SPIRIT OF GRACE. 

I will pour upon the house of David the 
Spirit of grace. Zech. xii:io. 

Of how much sorer punishment shall he 
be thought worthy who hath done despite 
unto the Spirit of grace. Heb. x:2g. 

SPIRIT OF WISDOM. 

The Spirit of wisdom and understand- 
ing, the Spirit of counsel and might, the 
Spirit of knowledge, and of the fear of 
the Lord. Isa. xi:2. 

Speak unto them whom I have filled: 
with the Spirit of wisdom. Ex. xxviii:3. 



Joshua was full of the Spirit of wis- 
dom. Deut. xxxiv.9. 

The Father of Glory give unto you the 
Spirit of wisdom. Eph. i:i7. 

SPIRIT OF GLORY. 

If ye be reproached for the name of 
Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of 
glory resteth upon you. I Pet. iv:i4. 

SPIRIT OF JUDGMENT. 

The Lord shall wash away the filth of 
the daughters of Zion by the Spirit of 
Judgment. Isa. iv:4. 

When He is come, He will reprove the 
world of judgment, because the prince of 
this world is judged. John xvi:8-n. 

The Lord of Hosts shall be for a Spirit 
of judgment to him that sitteth in judg- 
ment. Isa. xxviii.6. 

SPIRIT OF PROMISE. 

After ye believed, ye were sealed with 
that Holy Spirit of promise. Eph. U13. 

The Holy Spirit is also called the Spirit 
of God (Gen. i.2; I Cor. ii: 14; Rom. viii: 
9-14; I Cor. vi:n); and the Spirit of 
Christ. (I Pet. i : r I ; Rom. viii:g). 

Footsteps of Truth. 



JUSTIFICATION. 

The subject of Justification is one of 
as great, if not greater moment, than any 
other subject in the Word of God a sub- 
ject demanding the most careful study 
possible. 

A subject which has occupied the 
thought and lifetime of the greatest Bib- 
lical scholars, in ages past or present. 

A subject that has occupied the triune 
God-Head ever since, if not before the 
world began. A subject that affects the 
eternal destiny of the whole human race. 
A subject not clearly apprehended by mul- 
titudes of professing Christians, and thus 
they are kept in the fearful chains of legal- 
ism all their days. A subject once revealed 
by the Spirit and laid hold of in the mind 



7o 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



and heart gives liberty, peace, rest and 
joy unspeakable! 



■what is IT 



To be accounted Just or Righteous be- 
fore God. 

To declare Judicially innocent. 

A judicial act by which the innocence 
of the person justified is established. 

A change of standing before God from 
a condition of condemnation to one of 
perfect righteousness. 

Removal of all guilt, and pronounced as 
guiltless and blameless. 

It includes remission of Sin and impu- 
tation of Righteousness, deliverance from 
condemnation and being constituted per- 
fectly and absolutely righteous. . 

It is an act of God alone. A righteous 
act. A complete act. 

It is not merely pardon. You may par- 
don a criminal, but you cannot justify him. 

Pardon is simply a loving act of a loving 
Father. Justification is a judicial act of 
God. 

Man to stand justified, must not only 
be acquitted from having violated the de- 
mands of the Law, but to be accepted as 
though he had perfectly fulfilled it. 

The Law of God requires to be kept in 
full (i) positive and (2) negative. 

(1) When we stand before God as hav- 
ing met all the requirements of His Holy 
Perfect Law. 

(2) When we are in His sight abso- 
lutely free from all unrighteousness and un- 
godliness. 

II. — man's standing before god. 
See I Sam. xvi:7 Compare Heb. iv: 

12, 13. 

1. In regard to God' 's law. For it is 
to the divine Law, the perfect law of God, 
we are amenable. 

The Law makes no provision for imper- 
fect obedience. Rom. iii:i2, 19, 23. Jas. 
ii:io. 

The Law makes no allowance for man's 
infirmity. Rom. iii:20. ^ 



2. In regard to his moral nature. 

Not simply what men were, but what 
man is. 

The depth of human depravity. Gen. 
vi:^; Ps li : 5 ; Jer. xvii:9; Ps. xiv:3; Isa. 
lxiv:6; Gal. v:ig, 20; Rom. iii:io. 

What a fountain of un cleanness ! 

3. In regard to the end and outcome of 
the law-breaking and our Impurity. 

(a) Condemnation. Gal. Hi: 10; Rom. 
iikicj. 

(b) Beyond possibility of improvement. 
Jer. iii:io, xiii:23; Job xiv:4. 

Our guilty and lost condition is estab- 
lished by evidence which it is impossible 
to refute or gainsay. Rom. iii:8, 1. c. 
Condemnation, moral and judicial, of all 
men. 

No hope. Ex. xxxiv:7; m. c- Ps. cxliii: 
2; Job. xxv:4-6. 

Everything in our conduct, whether in- 
ternal or external, is opposed to the holy 
will of God. Rom. viii:7, 8. 

The great error from the time of Adam 
has been, viz: How can man be mended? 
when the whole teaching of God's word is 
that man is unmendable. See John iii:6, 7. 

Let us learn the lesson of our utter in- 
ability to stand before God. Job ix:20; 
30, 31. 

III. — WHO IS THE JUDGE OR JUSTIFIER ?' 
GOD ALONE. 

Rom. iv:5. 

Righteousness of God in contrast 
with unrighteousness of man. 

1. His Essential Character cr Being. 
Ps. cxix:'37; cxlv:i7; Isa. xlv:2i; 1. c; I 
Pet. i:i6; Ps. xviii-^o. 

2. Acknowledged as the Righteous God. 

(a) By Christ His Son. John xvii:25. 

(b) By Angels. Isa. vi:3; Rev. xvi:5, 7. 

(c) By Living creation. Heaven. Rev. 
iv:8. 

(d) By Man. Dan. ix:7, f. c. Jer. 
xii:i, f. c. Very high. Ps. lxxi: 16-19^ 
Ps. xxxvi:5, 6. Everlasting, unchangea- 
ble. Ps. cxix:i42. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



3. Exhibited in His 

(a) Testimony, or Word. Ps. cxix:i3S. 

(b) Law. Deut. iv:8. 

(c) Gospel. Rom. i:i6, 17. 

(d) Throne. Ps. Ixxxix:i4; xcvii:2. 

(e) Judgment. Ps. xix:g; Rom. iil : 5 , 
6; John viii . 1 5 , 16; Rev. xix:2 f. c, Acts 
xvii:3 1 ; Xeh. ix:33. 

(f) Justifying the ungodly. Rom. iv:5; 
Rom. iii:5, 6. 

(g) Condemning the unbeliever. Rom. 
ii : 5 ; II Thess. i:6-g; Rev. xvi:7; Gen. 
xviii:25; Job viii -.3; I Sam ii ; 3 ; Job xxxi: 
6, margin. 

Man weighed, measured, tested, is 
found wanting. 

God stands before us, absolutely the 
Righteous, Holy and Just God, and it is 
this God that justifies. Rom. iv:5; viii: 
33. And our eternal destiny depends on 
His righteous judgment. 

To be justified, what peace. Rom. 
viii:34. 

To be condemned, what speechless guilt. 
Matt, xxii.i 1-13. 

The Lawmaker, the Lawgiver and 
Judge is the Justifier. 

The great stupendous fact is that God 
justifies the ungodly. Stand still and 
accept it. You cannot seek it. Rom, iv:25, 
v:i. viii:30-34. 

IV. — HOW CAN GCD JUSTIFY THE UN- 
GODLY? 

I. The Origin of Source, God's Sover- 
eign Grace. 

This is the most expressive character 
of God. 

Grace is peculiarly God's own essential 
quality. 

The God of all Grace. I Pet. v. 10. 
Free, unmerited love and favor. Rom. 
viii:29, 30; Rom. iii - 24 ; Titus iii-7; John 
i: 14; II Cor viii:g 

The extent of grace its sovereignty. 
Sin flows from Adam, i.e. Adamic. and 
before God can be just and justify the un- 



godly, He must deal with the great ques- 
tion of Sin. 

The remedy to be effective, must go 
back before the beginning, i. e. Pre-Ad- 
amic. Exceeding grace. 

Then note, it is free grace. Rom. iii:24. 

Justification on this basis is therefore, 
a causeless act. Eph. iii:2, 7, 8. Com- 
pare Rom. iii:24; John xv:25. Same 
word, and means without cause. 

But what of the justice of God ? What 
of the unchanging, unalterable Law of 
God? Must not the righteousness of God, 
and the Law of God be maintained? 

His grace will never permit of his com- 
promising His justice and righteousness. 
He is the God of All Grace, but also the 
God of Truth and Righteousness. His 
Grace and Love are subordinate to Plis 
Justice. Righteousness and justice are 
habitations of His throne; and therefore, 
man's deliverance from condemnation must 
be secured in such a manner as to estab- 
lish both God's Justice and just Law. 

2. The Judicial ground of Justifica- 
tion is 

Obedience or Law-keeping. Is it pos- 
sible for man to be justified by the deeds 
of the Law? Rom. i^i :28 ; Gal. ii: 16. 
The Law broken, must be met. Rom. 
viii : 3. End of Law. Rom. x:4. 

(a) The Ceremonial ■ Law. Every 
priestly act had its fulfillment in Christ. 
Luke ii:2i, 22, 39, Matt. iii:i3-i5. 

(b) Moral Law. If Christ is to bring 
Justification for the ungodly, He must do 
it on righteous lines. The law must be 
met in every point. He must show Him- 
self righteous before He can possibly se- 
cure righteousness and justification for the 
unrighteous or ungodly. 

See the testimony of the Word of God 
concerning His Righteousness. 

Judas. I have betrayed the innocent 
blood. Matt. xxvii:4. 

Pilate. I am innocent of the blood of 
this Just person. Matt. xxvii:24. 



72 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Pilate s Wife. Have nothing to do 
with this Just man. Matt, xxvii.19. 

Herod. Lo, nothing worthy of death. 
Luke xxiii:i5. 

Thief. This man has done nothing 
amiss. Luke xxiii:_|.i. 

Centurion. Certainly this was a right- 
eous man. Luke xxiii:47. 

Paul. He knew no sin. II Cor. v: 
21. 

John. In Him was no s'n. I John 
iii:5- 

God Himself . This is my beloved Son, 
in whom I am well pleased. Matt. Hi: 17. 

He was the Spotless, Harmless, Holy, 
Righteous Law-keeper. Isa. liii. 

(c) The Broke7i Law. The penalty 
must be met. The breach must be re- 
stored. Rom. x:4; Gal. iii : 1 3 ; Rom. 
iii:24, 1. c. 

The end of the Law meant obedience. 
Ps. xl.7, 8. Heb. v:8. 

From glory to the grave, and from the 
grave to glory was one continuous act of 
obedience. Phil. ii:6-g. 

How often He used the imperative 
must. 

Lukeii:4g; John ix:4; John iii 114, Mark 
viii:3i; Luke xxiv:7; Luke xxii:37; Matt. 
xxvi:54. Luke xxiv:44. 

End of the Law, for what, by what? 
Rom. x:4; v:i-9; Dan. ix.24. See Isa. 
xlir.21, margin. Compare John xvii: 1-4. 

3. The Procuring Cause, Substitution, 
Blood. 

Substitution is the principle on which 
God has always dealt with fallen man. 

The death of Christ on the cross for sin, 
the essential cause of Justification. 

The cross the only place of expiation. 

The glory of Heaven revolves around 
the Cross. 

Calvary and Golgotha the light of the 
Eternal City. 

The Blood of the Lamb. See Rev. 1:5, 
vii:i4. 

The seamless Vail of the Temple. 



The Golden Doors of the Temple. 

The Golden Gate of the New Jerusa- 
lem. All opened by the power of the 
Blood of the Lamb. 

Foundation of the Age. Rev. xiii:8; 
End of Age. .Heb. ix:26. 

Sin of the World. John i:2g. Re- 
demption through His Blood. Eph. i:7. 
Peace made through His Blood. Col. i: 
20. Justified by His Blood. Rom. v:g. 

The Blood is at once the sinner's Justi- 
fication, and the proof that God is just in 
Justifying him. Rom. iii:24, 25. 

The whole O. T. economy proves that 
atonement for sin is possible, but only on 
the ground of sacrificial bloodshedding. 
Lev. xvihii; Heb. ix:22; Rev. v:g. 

The royal seal on the Charter of Israel 
was the red blood. The Economy of 
blood was for fifteen hundred years, and 
no Israelite had any conception of ap- 
proach to God but by blood. 

" Justified by Blood." The foundation 
truth of Christianity. 

What a resting place for the ungodly. 
Isa. liii : 5 . 

(a) Delivered. Rom. iv:25. Handed 
over for execution. John xviii:30. 

Delivered to whom ? (1) To man. 
Luke ix:44. See II Sam. xxiv:i4. (2) 
Israel. Mark x:33; Matt. xx:i8, 19. (3) 
Gentiles. Luke xviii:32; Mark xv:i. 
(4) Executioners. Matt. xxvii:26, 27. 
John xix:6. 

Thus was the Son of Man dealt with by 
man. Delivered unto Death. This is a 
matter of history. The truth as to the 
outcome or end of it is a matter of Reve- 
lation. 

(b) Delivered for whom ? Rom. iv: 
25; Isa. liii: 5 ,6; I Pet. ii: -4.; I Pet. iii: 18; 
Rom, v:6. 

Guiltless as guilty, for the guilty, He 
was made Sin for us. II Cor. v:2i; Isa. 
liii: 5, margin. 

How amazing, yet how real the identi- 
fication. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



73 



Christ suffered for us in the flesh. I Pet. 
iv:l. 

(c) Delivered by Whom? (i) Man. 
Israel. Mark xv:i; Acts iii: 12-16. Pi- 
late. Mark xy:i5, 16. 

The Son of Man delivered to man. For 
man. By man. 

How intensely human. 

4. By God Himself. God. Rom. 
viii:32. 

What God is, and what Christ has done, 
makes up the Gospel, aud the great ques- 
tion of salvation is wholly an act of God, 
or not at all. 

Foretold by God. Gen. iii: 15. Isa. liii: 3. 

Permitted by God. Matt, xxvi.52-54. 

Ordered, or accomplished by God. Rom. 
viii:32. 

Resolved — Planned in the Eternal coun- 
sels or will of God. Acts ii:23; iv:28. 

An act of God in accordance with His 
own fixed design. Eph. iii:ii. 

Chiist's Substitution. (i) Human. 
One of us. Phil, ii: S ; John i:l4. (2) Ad- 
amic, reaches the whole human race. I 
Cor. xv 145. (3) Divine. Touches God, 
therefore all sufficient. Acts xx:2S. It is 
this that gives it value, hence, it is called 
the blood of the Everlasting Covenant. 
Heb xiii^:20. 

He delivered Him up, that He might 
not deliver us up. 

Delivered up to what ? 

To Bethlehem's manger. No home. 
Luke ii : 7 . 

To have no place to lay His head. 
Matt. viii:20. 

To become the Man of Sorrows. Matt. 
xxvi:3S. 

To be made Sin. Matt, xxvii 135, 

To Satan to be tempted. Matt. iv.i. 

To man to be spit upon. Mark xv:ig. 

To the ignominious death of the cross. 
Matt, xxvii. 

In order that He might deliver us from 
Condemnation, Death and Hell to Justi- 
fication; Life and Heaven. 



The procuring cause or Price of Justi- 
fication cost us nothing, but who can esti- 
mate what it cost God. John iii'- 16. He 
spared not. Rom. 8:3:. 

V. — RESURRECTION. 

The pledge and proof of it. 

Jesus needed this Himself. Nothing 
short of Resurrection would have proven 
that He was righteous. I Tim. iii. 16; 
Phil. ii:6-n; Rom. i:4. 

Therefore God raised the man Christ 
Jesus from the grave of condemnation. 

Mark, it was God did it. Johnxvii:i, 
5; Rom. iv:25; Acts ii : 34 ; Acts i i : 3 2 ; 
Actsxvii:3i; Heb. xiii:20. 

God, by this act, vindicated the right- 
eousness of one whom the world had con- 
demned. 

The Law put Christ to death, death be- 
ing the claim of the Law. It could do 
no more. It spent its force on the cross. 

The Law and Death have no more 
claim on Him. So that the Life I 
have in Christ, is a new Life — free from 
Law and Death. 

Christ's Redemptive work was complet- 
ed on the cross, but we must not forget 
that in His Priestly, Sacrificial and Aton- 
ing work, He was the great Antitype, 
the fulfillment of all the priestly and sacri- 
ficial work which had preceded Him. 

Now what of the type ? Where could 
it be said that the offering was complete 
or finished ? 

What of the Holy Place? What of the 
Propitiatory or Mercy Seat ? See John 
xx:i7. 

The Resurrection of Christ was a most 
important part of the Great Redemption. 
Yea, an essential part of the redemption 
work, and not merely the consequence of 
it. If Christ be not risen He is not 
Priest; He is not Saviour Acts v:30, 31; 
Heb. ix:ii, 12; Heb. vii.25; iv:i4; ix:24. 
And our Faith is vain. I Cor. xv: 4. 

Justification began in grace and ends in 
glory, Sat down. Heb. x:i2; i.3. 



74 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



The Resurrection of Christ, is the Dec- 
laration of the completeness of Justifica- 
tion and the great Government seal of 
Heaven. God's Emancipation Proclama- 
tion. 

The Resurrection is the Truth, ground, 
or foundation in which Abraham, Da- 
vid and Job rested for Justification. 
Abraham, Rom. iv:i7~22. David. Acts 
li 24-34; xiii:2a-36. Ps. xvir.15; Job xix: 
25, 26. Justification is anchored on Res- 
urrection ground. 

He was delivered for the condenmedbe- 
cause of their offences. He was raised 
for the tincondemned because of fazix Jus- 
tification. Rom. iv.25. He rose to jus- 
tify us or because we were justified, and 
in raising Him, God the Father cleared 
Him from all the imputed guilt which 
caused Him His death. 

Our offences the ground or cause of His 
being delivered. 

Our justification, the end or purpose 
for which He was raised, 

The Death of Jesus the effect of our 
offence. 

The Resurrection of Christ the effect 
of our justification. 

Twofold Work. First Adam. (1) 
Righteousness driven out. (2) Sin brought 
in. 

Second Adam. (1) Sin driven out. 
(2) Righteousness brought in. 

This is the sure and only foundation on 
which we stand justified in the risen Lord 
Jesus. I Cor. hi: 11. 

The atoning work of Christ has been 
accepted, the demands of God's Holy 
Law have been righteously met. God is 
reconciled and man, ungodly man '^Justi- 
fied freely. See Rom. iii : 25 . 

With the fact of Christ's Resurrection, 
and therefore the fact of Justification, the 
question arises. How do we become iden- 
tified in present and personal possession 
of it? 



VI. — UNION WITH CHRIST. 

Who is our Justification. 

Federal Headship. Acts xiii 137-39; 
Rom. vi:6-g; Rom. vii:4; Eph. ii : 5 , 6; 
Col. ii:io; Gal. ii:2o; Col. i:3. 

Are not the head and body identical ? 
Then the Resurrection Life (i. e: Justified 
Life) must be a fact to every member of 
the body, and as a member of His body. 
His Life is mine. 

His blood, or death justifies me from 
Adamic life. 

His Resurrection or Life justifies me 
with Divine Life. 

It is Christ's Justified Life that God 
cannot condemn. Rom. v:8-io, 18, 21; 
viii:30. 

God in His own purpose or sovereign 
grace, gave His people justification before 
the foundation of the world in union with 
Christ. 

Chosen in Him. Eph. i:4. 

Accepted in Him. Eph. i:6. 

Redemption in Him. Eph. i:7. 

Forgiveness in Him. Eph. i:7. 

Sealed in Him. Eph. i: 1 3. 

Life in Him. Eph. ii : 5 . 

Righteousness in Him. II Cor. vrij, 21. 

Complete in Him. Col. ii:g-io. 

All in Him. Isa. liv:i 7: Isa. xlv:24, 
25; Rom. x 4; I Ccr. i:30;ICor. iii:22. 

Our married or justified name Jehovah- 
Isidkenu. Jer. xxxiii:i6; xxiiiA The 
Lord our Righteousness. 

Note the character of the Righteous- 
ness. 

Dan. ix-24. (1) Finish the transgres- 
sion. (2) Make an end of sin. (3) Make 
reconciliation (atonement). (4) Bring in 
Everlasting Righteousness. 

As children, the Father may and does 
pardon hundreds of times, but God's Jus- 
tice makes righteousness, once and for- 
ever, Everlasting Righteousness. 

VII. — HOLY SPIRIT THE EFFECTUAL 
AGENT. 

I Pet. iii: 1 S ; I Tim. Hi: 16; Eph. i:i3; 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READING?. 



75 



I Cor. vi:ii, Rom. viii:2; John xvi:S-io; 
I John 1.5, 6; Titus iii:4-7- 

But the Holy Spirit seldom, if ever, 
works apart from the Word of God. 

VIII. — THE INSTRUMENTAL CAUSE. 
Tkt Word of God. 

This is the Power of God. 

Therein is the Redemption of God re- 
vealed. 

Rom. i: 16, 17; Ps. cxix.g; John xvii:3; 
Isa. iiii.Ti :Pet. i:2, 3; John viii:32; John 
xx. 31; Rom. viii.n, f. c.;xv:4. 

All Scripture brings us face to face with 
Christ, who alone is our Justification. 
John v: 39. 

The Word and Testimony. Thus saith 
Jehovah. 

See Col. i:9, 10; II Pet. iii:iS; Eph. 
ivi 1- i 3. 

The Word. The instrument used by 
the Holy Spirit, quickens, strengthens 
and gives life and power to Faith. John 
xvi.13, 14; Rom. x:i7. See Eph. 1:13. 
In whom. Heard the word of Truth. 
(See R. V.) 

Believed. Sealed. 

Now we come to the manward side of 
Justification. 

IX. — FAITH, THE APPROPRIATING 
MEDIUM 

Faith the connecting link. The chan- 
nel through which I receive justification. 
Faith, the hand accepting justification. 
Faith, the mind and heart resting on the 
Testimony of the Word. 

Rom. x:g-i4; Acts xiii :3g; Gal. ii;i6; 
Rom. iii:28; iv:5; iii:22; Rom. iv:i6. 
Faith connects us with Righteousness. 

See Brazen Serpent. Num. xxi. What 
healed? The Looking (Faith) of the bit- 
ten ones on the object, i, e. The Divine 
Word behind the piece of brass. 

Faith sees through the Word of God to 
God Himself. Faith is not our Physi- 
cian. It only brings us into contact with 
Him. See Ex. xv:-6. 



The part of Faith in this great matter, 
is simply to receive, and honestly trust 
God who justifieth. Reposing on the fin- 
ished work of Christ, our Righteousness. 
Faith is rest, not labor or work. It adds 
nothing to that which is already finished. 

Notice the word, in Rom. iv. im- 
puted occurs over forty times in N. T. and 
many times in O. T. Translated vari- 
ously: Thinkest, Counted, Reckoned. 
Numbered, i. e. Considered to be; Ps. 
xxxii:2; Rom. iv:3, 5, 6; 8. 11, 24; v:l3: 
Gal. iii:6. 

Imputed sin brought Condemnation and 
Death. 

Imputed Righteousness brings Justifi- 
cation and Life. 

Now what part has faith in justification? 
What can Faith do but accept. 

Suppose you are an heir to an estate, 
though not in possession, yet on the 
strength of the testament or covenant of 
the will, you are considered to be worth 
the value of the estate, but the fact that 
you consider yourself worth that amount, 
does not make you so. Is it not all be- 
cause of him who made the testament, or 
covenant ? 

(1) Who made the will? The first cause. 

(2) What is the evidence? The instru- 
mental cause. 

(3) Who conveyed the good news? 

(4) The conveyance the effective agent. 
4. What are you to do, what can you 

do, but accept it ? 

(1) God Himself made the will. Ev- 
erlasting Righteousness. 

(2) The Word of God, the will itself. 
The instrumental cause. 

(3) The Holy Spirit. The effect, the 
agent. 

(4) Faith lays hold of and makes it 
mine. 

The effect, I am justified. 
Now. How to bring it into possession. 
See. Luke xviii:i4. 

(1) I am the sinner. Luke xviii:i3. 



76 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



(2) Justification is what I need. 

(3) God alone can justify me. 

The faith may be weak, very weak. 
Touch Him and thoushalt be made whole. 
Maft. ix:2i. 

Let thy imperfect faith rest in the per- 
fection of Him who has provided a per- 
fect Righteousness for the most imperfect 
and thou shalt be perfectly justified. 

X. — WORKS, THE LIFE OUTCOME. 

Fruit, Proof or Evidence ot Justification. 

See James ii: 14-26; Matt. v:2o; vii:2o; 
etc. xii:33. 

Necessity of works. I John iii:7-io. 
Not doing to make righteousness, but do- 
ing righteous because we are righteous. 

Works the outward manifestation of the 
inward faith and life. 

We have seen that it is God who justi- 
fieth, and every believer in the justifying 
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
stands just before God, and now the ques- 
tion is, to be justified before men. 

We must have proof of our justifica- 
tion. 

Col. iv:5; Heb. xii:i2; I Cor. xv:s8. 

Test Rom. vi:i-i3. We work from 
the Cross, not to it. We are not to labor 
for justification, but because of it. Our 
faith must be embodied in acts. 

We cannot separate these essential parts 
of Christian Life. They stand or fall 
together. Good works is the thermometer 
of Faith. 

Fruits and Evidence of Justification. 
♦ I. Life of Confession. Ps. xxxii; Prov. 
xxviii:i3. Not confession in order to be 
saved, but a natural impulse or outflowing 
from a heart filled with Love and Salva- 
tion. 

2. Life of Holiness. Rom. vhiS-22. 
Not in order to be justified, but a proof 
of the outgrowth of it. If the root is 
holy, what of the branches, the fruit? 

Separate life. (Negative). II Tim. ii: 
19 1. c. Gal. vi:i4. 

Decided (Positive). Titus ii:i2 1. c. 



The Cross, like the Red Sea, completely 
separates, cuts off from Egypt, the World. 

At the door of the theater, ballroom, 
and in fact, any other worldly (world-like) 
amusement or fashion, stands the cross 
forbidding entrance. 

3. Life of Love. Luke vii:4I, 42; 
I Cor. xiii; Rom. xii:io. 

4. Life of Unselfish Liberality II 
Cor. ix:6, 7; Jas. ii- 14-18; Rom. xv:2. 

5. Life of Peace. * Rom. v:i; Eph. ii: 
14; Col. iii:i.S; Isa. xxvi:3. 

6 Life of Prayer and Dependence, 
(not independence). John xv:4, 5. 

7. Life of Faith. Gal. iihii; Gal. ii: 
20. 

S. Life of Praise. Gratitude becomes 
us. Heb. xiii: 15. 

9. Life of Hope. Rom. v:2; Luke 
xix:i3; Titus ii : 13 ; Rev. xxii:i2, 20. 



LAW 



Ex. xix. 

I. 

Grace all along to the present. Now 
Lazo is the order. The place Ex. xix:2. 
See iii:i2. 

The Order, r. Reminds them of what 
he had done, Ex. xix:4. See also Deut. 
xxxii:ii, 12; Isa. lxiikg; Isa. v:4; Matt. 
xxiii:39. 2 - Makes a Probation, Ex. 
xix: 5. 

"My Voice." How, and for what pur- 
pose? Ex. iii and vi chapters. 

"My Covenant." Gen. xvii:7, "3; Ex. 
vi:4. 

Heretofore all that God had done was 
entirely independent of their doings. Sov- 
ereign Grace. iVoiv His blessings are on 
condition of their works. The blessmgs 
might be "God's peculiar Treasure, "and a 
''Kingdom of Priests." 

Pectdiar Treasure. Deut. vii:6; xxxii: 
9. Titus ii: 14. That on which He placed 
great value, and upon which He would 
display greater affection. 

Kingdom of Piiests. Lev. xvi.2, 3, 17, 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



77 



29. 30.; I Pet. ii :q ; Rev. i:6. Access to 
God. 

Conditions. What their decision. Ex. 
jrix:8. God takes them at their word. 
Ex. xix.9. 

"Distance." Moses the Mediator. 

"Thick Cloud." Ps. xcvii:2. Set 
bounds Ex. xix:i2. 

"To meet with God." Ex. x:x:i;. 
Smoke. Earthquake. Fire. Fiery Law. 
Deut. xxxiii:2. God a consuming fire. 

Moses with God. Ex. xix:20; Heb. 
xii;2l. 

What the first communication. Any 
message of glad tidings of Grace. Man's 
utter inability to stand before the majestic 
holiness of God. What an awful dis- 
tance! 

II. 

Ex. xx. 

The Law or Ten Commandments, 
known as the "Ten Words" or "Deca- 
logue." Termed "The Law," as absolute. 

"The Moral Law" as to its moral teach- 
ings. Divided into two parts. I to 4, 
God- ward. 5 to 10. Man-ward. 
1. — BY WHOM? 

Ex. xx:i, 2. God's preface. 

"I am." See Ex. iii:i4. Self-existent. 

"Jehovah." Covenant. 

"God." Almighty. 

What a view of "God" in verse 2. Not 
so much the Greatness as the Goodness of 
God. Yet see verses 18, 19. 21. 

As the self-existent Jehovah Almighty. 
— 1. He asserts His authority to enact the 
Law. Lawmaker. 

2. He would have them remember that 
He was the One only Supreme Being. 

How given by God. V. I. Spake. 
Audible, v. 22. Ex. xix:g. Deut. v:4. 
Matt. iii:i7. Any other way?. Ex. xxiv. 
12; xxxi:i8; xxxii:i6. Deut. ix;io. 
II. — TO WHOM? 

Ex. xix;24. John i:i~' viiiig, 23. 
Acts xiii 139; xv:5. Gal. iii.19. Ex. xx: 
19. Lev. xxvi:46. 



Mediator. See Gal. iii:20, 21. Deut.v:5. 

III.— FOR WHOM? 

Verse 2. 

Promise. See Gen. xv:I3-i6. Gen. 
xv:i8. Gen. xvii:7-io. 

The Covenant. Ex. iir.9, 10; xix:3-6; 
xxxiv.27. Deut. xxix:i. 

Ex. xx:2, 22. 

Deut. v:i, 6. 

By some the Law is stated as the man- 
uscript of God's mind. Yes, so it is; but 
what is God's mind as seen here in the 
Law? What man ought to be! But does 
the Law give us a true index or transcript 
of God's mind? Ah, no. Grace tells us 
what God is! 

All Jewish- 
John viir.17. Your Law. 

John x:34. Your Law. 

John xv:25« Their Law. 

John vir.51. Our Law. 

John xix:7. Otir Law. 

John xviii:3i. K^r Law. 

When? Ex. xix:i. "Third month." 
Ref. to Ex. xii:2. 

"Beginning" in what sense? 

(Every believer in Jesus Christ not only 
saved from the condemnation through the 
blood of Jesus Christ, but through the op- 
eration of the Holy Spirit becomes a new 
man— stands in a new relationship.) 

Three months old. 

Three months out of Egypt. 

Three months out of bondage. 

Three months on their way to Canaan. 

Where? Not in Egypt nor in Canaan, 
but in the wilderness. On the way from 
Egypt (World) to Canaan (Place of Rest). 

Israel a redeemed people. Deut. iv:7, 8. 

Israel a chosen people. Deut. iv:7, S. 

Israel a representative people. Deut. 
iv:7, 8. 

1. Character of the Law. 

Coming from God it must partake of 
His character. If God be Holy, Just, 
Righteous and Good, the Law must be 
the same. 



78 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Rom. vii:i2. "Holy." 

Rom. vii:i4. ' Spiritual" 

Rom. vii:i6. ''Good." 

The perfection of the Law. The 
"Ten Commandments" has never been 
impeached or brought into question. Not 
even by infidels and others who have 
mocked the Law Giver. Its brevity, sim- 
plicity, comprehensiveness. 

2. Its demands. 

Its characteristic is prohibition, mostly 
negative. "Thou shalt not." This teaches 
two things: i. The tendency of the nat- 
ura I man: therefore under Law. 2. The 
tendency of the Spiritual man; therefore 
under G?ace. 

How the Law with its negative "Thou 
shalt not ' confronts the positive tendency 
to do evil. See Judges xvii:6. 

3. Its object. 

(See for whom?) Meaning of the word 
law — original, to point as with a finger; a 
directory. 

A . — Nega tively — 

1. Not for Faith. Gal. iii.12. 

2. Not to give Life. Lev. xviii:5. 
Rom x:5. Life only on the ground of 
absolute perfect obedience, this impossi- 
ble. Rom. viii:7. See Gal. iii:2i. 

3. Not to give Righteousness. Gal. 
ii:2i. 

4. Not to Justify. Acts xiii:3g. Rom. 
iii:20. Gal. ii:i6. Gal. iii:ii. 

5. Not to bring man to God. Ex. xx: 
20. Rom. iii:i9, 20. 

6. Not to make perfect. Heb. vii.19. 

7. Not to bring into possession of 
promised inheritance Gal. iii:i8. 

B. — Positively — 

1. To make known sin. Rom. iii:2o; 
vii.7, 8. 

2. That the offence of sin might abound. 
Rom. v:20, a parenthesis coming in be- 
tween the promise and the fulfillment. 
See Gal. iii: 19. 

23. That sin might be seen as exceed- 
ing sinful. Rom. vii:i3. ~ 



That sin might be brought home to the 
sinner. Rom. iii 123. 

5. Worketh wrath. Rom. iv;i5, 

6. To minister condemnation. II Cor. 
iii : Q. 

7. To minister death. II Cor, iii:6, 7. 
Rom. vii:5. Gal. iii : 10. 

Compare Rom. viii:3. Its weakness. 

Compare I Cor. xv.56. Its strength. 

Now see Gal. v:3. Jas. ii ic Gal. iii: 10. 

The Law is God's tule of righteousness. 
The standard of God's just requirements. 
Apply the test. How is it with us? Rom. 
iii:ig-23. 

IV. — ITS OBJECT OF TEACHING. 

Gal. iii:24. See Rotherham and R. V. 

See Luke xvi:i6. Gal. iii:xix. Heb. 
vii:i9; vn :i2- The Law was "a School- 
master" dealing with Jews until Christ 
came. 

1. Christ in relation to the Law. 
Matt. v:i7; iii:i;. Gal. iv:4, 5; iii: 13. 

II Cor. iii. 11. Eph. ii : 1 5 . Rom. viii:3; 

x:4- 

To Christ. Gal. iii. 24. Like Moses 
(law) leading Israel up to Canaan. Joshua 
(grace) takes them into Canaan. 

Moses set aside. Christ is come as not 
only the sum and substance of all teaching 
in the Law, but He is now the Teacher. 
John iii: 1, 2; Matt. xi:28, 29. 

"Learn of me." 

2. Believer s relation to the Law. 

1. Redeemed from it. Gal. iii: 13. 

2. Dead to it. Rom. vii:t, 4, 6. Gal. 
ii: 19. 

3. Free from it. Rom. vi:i4. Gal. 
v:i8. 

4. Righteous without it- Rom. x.4, 
viii : 3 , 4; I Cor. i:30. 

5. Complete without it Col. ii : 10-17. 
Rom. viii: 1, etc. 

6. New relationship. Gal. iii:25, 26, 
iv:5, 6. 

7. A new Law. Matt, xxii : 36-40; Gal. 
v:i4. Jas. ii:S John xiii:34, 35. I 
John iii : 23, 24. Rom. xiii;io. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



79 



Laboring or serving- from quite a differ- 
ent motive, and from a different center. 
Jer. xxxi:33. Heb. viii:io. Rom. vn-5. 
Heb. x:i6. Led by the Spirit. John 
xiv:i6, 1.7, 26; xvi:i3 

Gal. v:i8. 

The otttcome. Gal. v:22, 23. 



LAW AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

1. Law. Deut. v:7-2i; vi:5. Mark 
xii:30, 3T. Righteousness in keeping the 
Law. Deut. VK25. Rom. x:5. 

2. Without Righteousness we are con- 
demned and cursed. Gal. iii:io. 

3. No man has this perfect Righteous- 
ness in himself. Rom. iihio. Ps. xiv:3. 
Rom. iii : iq. Job. xiv.4. Jer. xiii:23. 

4. Christ has wrought out a perfect 
Righteousness for us. 

Prophesied. Dan. ix.23. 

Fulfilled. Matt, iii: 15. John xvii:4; 
xix:30. Rom. x:4. I Cor. i:30. Also 
Rom. i:i6, 17. 

5. Imputed to us. Rom. iv:ii; viii:2i- 
25. See reckoning to one what does not 
belong to him. Philemon i.18. Free, un- 
merited favor! 

6. Why it becomes ours. Sin from 
Adam. Rom. v: 19-21. II Cor. v:2i. 

Righteousness from Christ, Rom. v. 
19, 21. II Cor. v:2i. 

7. How does it become ours? By ac- 
cepting it. How did Christ receive our 
sin? By accepting it. I Pet. ii:24. II 
Cor. v:2i. Rom. x:4; ix:30-32; iv:3-6; 
x.6-10. See also Phil. iii:8. 

8. Our Standing or Privilege and Ac- 
ceptance. Isft. xlv:24. I Cor. i:30. Rom. 
iv:25; v:i, 2. Isa. lxi:io; xxxii:i7, and 
II Peter i:i. 



END OF LAW. 
Rom. x:iv. 

1. Character. Rom. vii:7, 12, 14, 16. 

2. Demands. Jas. ii:io. Also see Rom. 
viii: 7, 8. 

3. Conclusion. Rom. iii: iq ; xi:32. 
See margin. 



4. Penalty. Gal. iii: 10. 

5. Object. Rom. iii:20. Gal. iii:2i- 
26. 

6. Fulfillment. Gal. iv:4, 5. Rom. 
x:4. It is -finished. Gal. iii: 1 3. Substi- 
tutionary work of Christ. Isa. liii; I Pet. 
ii:24. See also Rom. v.iS. Love. 

7. Benefit. Righteousness. Read I 
Cor. i:30. Rom. x:3: i : 1 7 ; iii*2i; x:*4. 
II Cor. v:20, 21. 

8. For whom. Whosoever. John iii: 
16. Heb. ii:g. Rom. x:ii-i3. 

9. Conditions. Faith. God's sover- 
eignty one thing; man's responsibility an- 
other. Rom. i: 16, 17; iii:22; x:6. 

Read again. Rom. x:4. 

"Love is the fulfilling of the Law." I 
Tim. i:5. "In Jesus" Rom. xiihio. 

Jesus the end of the Law. Rom. x:4. 

Jesus the fulfillerof the Law. Matt, iii: 
*5- 

Jesus the expounder of the Law. Matt. 
v. 

Jesus our Redeemer from the curse of 
the Law. Gal. iii: 13. 

Notice how He kept the ceremonial 
Law. 

1. Circumcised the eighth day. Luke 
ii:2i. 

2. Presented in the Temple. Luke ii:22. 

3. Baptized by John. Matt, iii: 13, 17. 

4. Paying tribute money. Matt, xvii: 
24-27. 

5. Observing the feasts ordained by the 
Law. John vii:8-i4. Luke ii:42, 43. 

6. Submitting to the penalty of the 
Law, and enduring its curse in His 
death. 



THE LOVE OF GOD. 

1. Astronomical. "As the Heaven is 
high." Ps. ciii:n. 

2. Geographical. "Asfar as the East." 
Ps. ciii:i2. 

3. Emotional. "As a Father pitieth." 
Ps. ciii: 13. 



8o 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



GOD'S LOVE. 

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LOVE OF GOD. 

Inexpressible. John iii: t6. 

Inconceivable. Eph. iii: 19. 

Everlasting. Jer. xxxi:3. 

Sovereign. Deut. viii:8. 

Free (undeserved). Hos. xiv:4. 

Immutable. John xiiin. 

Boundless and infinite. I John iv:i6. 

GOD'S LOVE DWELLING IN US — WE DWELL- 
ING IN GOD'S LOVE. 

i. Live through Him. I John iv:8, 9. 

2. First fruit of the new Life. Gal. 
v:22. 

3. Fulfilling of the new Commandment. 
John xiii:34. 

4. Fulfilling of the Law. Rom. xiii:io. 

5. Sign of assurance. I John iii 114. 

6. Mark by which we are known by 
others. John xiii:35 . 

how god's love protects us. 

1. Underneath. 

"Underneath are the everlasting arms." 
What a foundation of love! 

2. Round about us. 
Love has her bulwarks. 

1. Mercy. Ps. xxxii:io. 

2. Special Guard. Ps. xxxiv.7. 

3. Wall of Fire. Zech. ir.5. 

4. Love Himself. Ps. cxxv:i, 2. 
Accepted in the Beloved. 

3. Above us. "His banner over me 
was Love." 

The Royal Standard. How safe! 

god's love. 
John iii:i6. cf. Isa lxiii:7. 

1. Do Hove God? 

2. Do I believe God loves me? 

1 . Do L love God? There is no place 
in the New Testament where God com- 
mands man to love Him. In the Old 
Testament it was "Thou shalt love," etc. 
cf. Matt. xxii:36-40. In the New Testa- 
ment it is, Look at my love to you, and 
"We love Him because He first loved 



us." See I John 111:23. Also Matt. vi:2i, 
and Rom. v:5 # 

2. Do L believe God loves me? Well, 
notice salvation through Love in several 
aspects. 

(a) Christ died for us. (Ransom paid 
by love.) Rom. v:8. Gal. ii:20. 

(b) Propitiation. I John iv: 10. 

(c) Forgiveness. Eph. i.6, 7. Ps. li:i. 
Micah vi:i8. 

(d) Eternal Life. John iii: 1 6. 

(e) Justification. Titus iii:4-7. Rom. 
iii:24-26. 

(f) Heavenly places. Eph. ii:4-7. 

(g) Adoption. I John iii:i, 2. 

(h) Kings and Priests. Rev. i:4-6. 
Also read I John iv:io-i7; iv:8, 9, 16. 
Eph. iii:i4-2i. I John iv:i9 

GOD'S LOVE AND OUR ETERNAL SECURITY, 

John iii: 16; Rom. viii:30 to 39, 

Sin atoned for! The thunderbolts of Si- 
nai have spent themselves on Him who in 
love came. That we might have life, and 
that we might have it more abundantly! 

Judicially, the Law has no claim. See 
John v:24. Rom. viiui. Now it is not 
a question of Larv keeping, not a living 
up to a code of laws, but a principle of 
life. Christ the Divine Life living in 
me. 

Union with Christ. This is the secret 
of eternal safety. Romans 8th chapter, 
begins in Christ, and ends in Christ. 

Am I in Christ? The love of God in 
Christ our eternal safety. 

In Christ. The refuge. I Sam. xxii: 
23. Prov. i: 33. 

Because I live ye shall live also. His 
life a guarantee of the eternal life of every 
believer in Him. 

In Christ. The Everlasting Father. 
Hos. xi:i-4- Loved as a child, v. 1. 
Held with leading strings, v. 3. Sup. 
ported by taking the arms drawn with 
bands of love. 

In Christ. Our great High Priest and 
Advocate. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



81 



For whom did Christ die? For whom 
did Christ live? 

In Mis love he died to save all who wi 
come to Him. 

In His power He lives to keep all who 
have come to Him. 

See Ileb. vi: 17-20; vii.'ig, 22, 24, 25 
I John ii:i. Heb. x.n, 12. 

How refreshing to know that He ever 
liveth to carry out the purpose of God's 
love. 

His love like the ring put on the prod- 
igal, has neither beginning nor end. 

The love of Christ is not of yesterday: 
it is not a passion of His manhood, but a 
perfection of His divinity. His love re- 
mains immutably the same. John xiii:i. 
god's love and our eternal security. 

John iii:i6. Rom. viii:3o 39. 

Turnagain to Heb. xi:ii, 12. Obtained 
redemption eternal. 

Rom. viii:35-39. Paul. Past. Sin 
forever settled. The Cross. Present. 
Blood. Mercy seat. Priesthood. Fu- 
ture. Life Divine (within). Coming 
glory. 

Rom. viiifi. Law's demand fully met, 
now under sovereign grace. 

Verse 37. Victory, not through loyalty 
or love to Him, but through His love to 
us. 

Paul, on the summit of Christian expe- 
rience. 

Looks down, every foe conquered 
through Christ. 

Looks up, nothing but eternal glory in 
Christ. 

Verse 35. Who can separate, etc.? 
Paul's answer in v. 37. cf. II Tim. 1:9, 
12. 

His confidence or certainty based on — 

1. God's Word abideth forever. I Pet. 
i:25. 

2. God's ptapose eternal. Eph. iii:ii. 

3. God's Love everlasting. Jer. xxxr.3. 
Us of Rom. viii. Church of Matt, xvi: 

18. Sheep of John x. 
6 



1. Death. I Cor. xv:55-57- John xi: 
25, 26. Ps. xlviii:i4. Col. hi. 3, 4. Rom. 
viii 133, 34; Rom. x.g, 10. II Tim i:io 

Died. Christ having died for sin, sin 
put away and forever settled. 

Risen. Victorious over death, in the 
power of an endless life. The federaJ 
head of the church. 

a. Died in our stead, on the cross — sub- 
stitute. 

b. Lives for us in Heaven — advocate. 

c. Dwells in us by His Spirit — Life. 

2. Life. With all its trials! And Paul 
was no stranger to these. 

Soul cast down. Hope thou in God. 
Heart overwhelmed. Lead me to the 
Rock. 

God's love is all sufficient. "As thy 
days, so shall thy strength be." Ps. exxi; — 
cxxv:2. Mai. iii:6. I Sam. xxv:29, 
Rom. xiv:8. 

3. Angels. Come to us in all forms, 
good and bad. The devil is sending out 
many of his infernal messengers in these 
days, to deceive if it were possible, even 
the very elect. How often He comes 
Himself as an Angel of Light. II Cor. 
xi:i4. 

4. Principalities and Poivers. Kings 
or Potentates! Fear not, I am with thee. 
John xvi:22. Isa. xxvii:3. Luke x:iS, 
19. 

5. Things Present. World, Flesh and 
Devil. Verse 18. Ps. xxxiv.7. 

6. Things to Co?ne. What gigantic 
faith! II Cor. i:io. II Tim. iv:i 7 . 18. 
Ps. lxi:i-4. 

7. Height. Whatever may be over us, 
though it reach to Heaven, He is above 
all, and His banner over us is Love. 

8. Depth. What quicksands the enemy- 
seeks to place beneath us. How he tries 
to undermine the foundation. There is 
beneath all this that which shall never 
give way. Matt. xvi:i8. Deut. xxxiii:27. 
Rom. xi:33. 

9. Xor any otliei Creatine. (Created 



82 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



thing.) The whole creation fails here 
The cable of God's Eternal Love is so 
great. Nothing able to separate us from 
the love of God in Christ Jesus. Oh, glo- 
rious place of security. 

V. 33. No one can accuse. Sin re- 
moved. 

V. 34. No one can condemn. Advo- 
cate, able to plead our cause. 

V. 3v No one can separate. His Life 
is our Life. 

Paul here mounts the battlements of 
the foe. Plants the Royal Standard on 
the summit. "God is Love." On the 
heights He shouts the song of triumph! 
Looking beneath Him at the vast army 
following. He cries Victory! Victory 1 ' 
Victory!!! In Christ! 

See II Cor. ii: 14 Jude 24, 25. John 
x:27-3o. 

The love of God hath put us in Christ 
and says fear not, I will keep thee. 



"IN LOVE." 

WHAT GOD HAS DONE "IN LOVE." 

Delivered our souls in love. Isa. 
xxxviii:i7. 

Given His Son in love. Rom. v:8. 

WHAT WE SHOULD BE "IN LOVE." 

Rooted and grounded in love. Eph. 
Ii i ; 1 7 

Knit together in love. Col. ii:2. 
Holy and without blame before Him in 
love. Eph. i:-}, 

Made perfect in love. I John iv: 18. 

WHAT WE SHOULD DO "IN LOVE." 

Forbear in love. Eph. iv:2. 

Speak the truth in love. Eph. iv:i5. 

Walk in love. Eph. v:2. 

Increase in love. I Thess. iii:i2. 

Edify the body of Christ (the Church) 
in love. Eph. iv:i6. 

Esteem God's servants in love. I Thess. 
v:i3. 

Hold fast the form of_sound words in 
love. II Tim. i : 1 3. 



Abide in the love of Christ. John 
xv:io. George T. Webb. 



CHRIST'S LOVE FOR HIS OWN. 

ITS MEASURE. 

John xv:g. As the Father's love to the 
Son. 

John xv:i2, 13. Even unto death. 

ITS CHARACTER. 

Cant. i:2, 4. Better than all earthly 
pleasure. 

John xiii.i. Unchangeable. 

Rom. viii:35. Indissoluble. 

Cant. viii:7. Unquenchahle. 

Isa. xl:il. Eph. v:25.2g. Tender. 

Rev. Hi: r q. Heb. xii:6. Wise. 

Cant. ii:iv. Deut. xxxikio, 11. Pro- 
tecting. 

Cant. viii:6. James iv:4. Matt, vi: 24. 
Jealous. 

Johnxi:5, 36. Gal. ii:20. Personal. 

Luke xxiii:34. Forgiving. 

Cant. viii:6. Beyond all price. 

Eph. iii:i8, 19. Unfathomable. 

Jer. xxxi:3. Isa. xlix:i5. John xvii: 
26. Everlasting. 

B. E. Mudie. 

PREVAILING PRAYER. 

1. Innocency. Isa. lix:i-4. Ps. xxvi:6. 
Ps. Ixvi:i8. Positive'open transgression. 
Negative omission of duty. 

Depart from Iniquity. II Tim. ii: ig. 

Hate Evil. Ps. xcvii:io. 

Abhor that which is evil. Rom. xii:g. 

Have no fellowship. Reprove. Eph. 
v:ii. 

Confession. Dan. ix:4, 9, 20, 21. 
Prov. xxviii:i3. Ps. xxxii:5: li : 1-4. I 
John i:8, 9. 

See Matt. xv:7, 8. II Sam. xxii:2i. 
James v:i6. 

2. Singleness of Heait. Matt. vi:24. 
Jas. iv:8. The glory of God. Johnxiv:i3. 

3. Doing God's Will. I John iii:2i, 
22; John ix:3i. Prov. xxviii:9. Thy will 
be done. Obedience. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



83 



4. In the Name of Jesus. John xiv:i3, 
14; xvi:23, 24. Rom. v:2. The Po- 
tency of His name. 

A beggar with a che~k. What gives 
the value. The name. 

Bank of Grace. Heb. iv:i6. 

5. According to His Will. I John v: 
14, 15. Matt. xxvi:37-42. Acknowledge 
Him Sovereign. 

6. Living Union with Him. John xv:7. 
Rom xii:i, 2. It is only as we are living 
in Christ and Christ in us that we are to 
know His will, and as in accordance there- 
with. 

7. In Faith. Heb. xi:6. Eph. iii:i2. 
Matt, ix.28, 29. Mark XL22-24. Jas. v: 
14-16. Whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin. 
Rom. xiv:23. 

8. Dependence upon the Holy Spit it. 
Rom. viii:26, 27. John iv:23, 24. 

1. To the Father. 

2. Through the Son. 

3. By the Holy Spirit. Eph. ii.18. 

PRAYER. 

Prayer of Jabez. I Chron. iv:g, 10. 
Jabez. 1. "Sorrowful." Man of sor- 
row. 

2. The tribe of Judah. 

3. The abruptness with which the ac- 
count is given. 

4. The long catalogue of names, 363 
verses, and He the only one of whom any 
special mention is made. 

What a noble biography — all in two 
verses (seventy-two words). 

I. — HE WAS A MAN. 

A man of sorrows. Difficulties. Born 
in trouble. At the risk of His own life 
and that of His mother. See Job v. 7; 
xiv:i. Eccl. ii:22, 23. John xvi:33. 
Acts xiv:22. 

II.— HE WAS AX HONORABLE MAN. 

He was more honorable than his breth- 
ren. He was of the same family, same 
connection, same surroundings. He was 



thus on a level with His brethren in all 
these earthly circumstances. But he was 
more honorable than they. Why! He 
loved his God. He served his God. He 
honored his Maker. Thus the honora- 
ble mention of him. See Prov. xv.33. 
Ps. xci:i5. John xii:26. See Joseph. 
Gen. xli:33, 45; xxxvii'3. Dan. ii:46, 49 
Them that honor me I will honor. I 
Sam. ii^o. 

III. — HIS PRAYER. 

The manner of. 

(a) Prayer of Faith. Confidence in 
God. See Jas. i:6. I John v. 14. 

(b) His Faith -was in God. He was no 
idolator, no hypocrite. See Mark xi:22. 
See Matt. xv:7, 8. 

(c) Simplicity. Familiarity. He evi- 
dently was acquainted with God. See 
Matt. xviii:i9. Phil. iv:6. 

(d) Reverence. He felt he was in the 
presence of the Omnipotent God. See 
Ps. lxxxix:7. Rev. iv:8. 

(e) Dejiniteness. He was impressed 
deeply with his need. He knew what he 
wanted. Explicit personal me. See I 
John v:i5. Ps. xxxii:5; li. 

(f) Earnestness. Fervently. Oh, that 
God would bless me indeed. See James 
v:i6. 

(g) Brevity. (33 words.) See Luke 
xxiii:42; xvii:i3- Matt. xiv:30. Mark 
xiv:36. 

IV. — WHAT HE PRAYED FOR. 

For special requests. 

1. Oh, that Thou wouldst bless me in- 
deed. Deliverance. Salvation. Peace. 
Rest. See Ps: lxxii:i2. I Chron. xvi:35. 
Job xxv:2. Jer. vi:i6. 

2. Enlarge my coast. Ps. cxix:i75- 

3. That thine hand might be with me. 
Conscious that without God he can do 
nothing. Fellowship abiding. See Ex. 
xxxiii:i5. John xv:7. I John i:6. 

4. That Thou wouldst keep 7ne from 
evil. 



84 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I Pet. 



He has learned to hate sin. 

Sin brings trouble, suffering. 

He that sins must suffer. 

See Prov. viii:i3. Isa. 1 vi i i : 3 
iii:i8. 

He prays to be kept from these. See 
Ps. xix:i3. Matt. vi:i3. John xvii:i5. 

V. — THE RESULT. 

And God granted him that which he 
requested. 

Prayers that have a right aim will have 
a right answer. See Ps. cxvi:i-8. 

Man with God in trouble. A Refuge. 
See Ps. xxxiv:6; ix:g; xxxvii:5; xlvi:i; xci: 
15. Johnxivn-3. Rev. xxi:4. 

Man without God in trouble. Jer. ii: 
28. Dan. xii:i. 



A FEW THOUGHTS ON PRAYER. 

1 . Kinds of Prayer. 
Earnest Petition. Phil. iv:6. 
Wrestling Prayer. Gen. xxxii 124-29. 
Meditative Prayer. Ps. xix:i4. 

• Secret Prayer. Matt. vi:6. 

United Prayer. Matt, xviikig, 20. 

Regular Prayer. Ps: lv:i7. 

Long Prayer. Dan. ix:3-2i; II Chron. 
vi. 

Short Prayer. Luke xviii:i3. Ps. 
xxv:4. 

Intercessory Prayer. I Sam. xii:23. 
Mark vii:2 5. 

2. Places. 

The Temple. Mark xi:i7. 
The Mount. Luke xxii.39. 
Upper Room. Acts i: 1 3. 
The Chamber. Dan. vi: o. 
River side. Acts xvi:i3. 
The Housetop. Acts x:g. 
The Road side. Gen. xxviii:20. 
Everywhere. I Tim. ii:S. 
The Closet. Matt. vi:o. 

3. Postures, 
Kneeling. Ps. xcv:6. 

Sitting. Matt. xx:30. Judges xx:26. 
Standing. I Kings vin:22. 



Lying down. Ps. lxiii:6. 

4 . Time. 

Morning, Noon and Night. Ps. Iv:i7. 
Dan. vi:io. 

Always. I Thess. v:i7. Rom. xii: 
12. Luke xviii:i. 

Thus we find that we are expected to 
live in prayer, that it should be as natural 
to us as our breath, and that at all times, 
in every place, and under all circum- 
stances; and in every frame of mind, our 
Heavenly Father would have us pray to 
Him for whatsoever we need. John xiv: 
13- 

By the power of the Holy Spirit. Rom. 
viii:26. 

In the name of Jesus Christ. John 
xiv:i4; xvi:24. 

All to be according to His will. I John 
v:i4. 

E. R. Hope. 

[Revised and enlarged by S. R. B.] 



PEACE. 



Isa. xlviii:22. See 18. Isa. ix:6. 

He came to bring Peace. Luke ii : 14. 

He died to make Peace. Col. i:20. 

He rose again, having obtained Peace. 
Luke xxiv'36. 

He lived to give Peace. John xiv.27. 

Believing in Him we have Peace. Rom. 
v:i. Alf. Sandham. 



PEACE. 

The Hebrew word for Peace (Sholom) 
is derived from a root which means per- 
fect, full, complete. This gives one idea 
of peace. Quietness comes from fulness. 
The Greek word means to make one. See 
Acts vii:26. Reconciliation. 

1. There is Peace or reconciliation tuitk 
God by forgiveness of all sin committed 
against Him. 

2. There is Peace tcit/z ourselves or our 
consciences from a sense of reconciliation 
to God which is the gift of Christ wrought 
in us by the Holy Spirit. Rom. xiv: 17. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



85 



Peace with God, i. c, Eden, perfect 
peace, no discord. Perfect harmony. God 
and man agreed. One mind. Love reigned. 
A Paradise of Peace. God at Peace with 
Man, and Man at Peace with God. 

Gospel Peace is not a perfect glow. It 
is not some seraphic ardor. It is not 
some feeling of calm repose. It is not 
some tranquil sensation of the mind. It 
does not consist in some overpowering 
feeling. 

It includes these, and something far 
more than all these. Something far more 
solid than any sensation or feeling, be it 
ever so soothing. It is the absence of 
alarm, the absence of fear, the absence of 
doubt. The opposite of storm. The op- 
posite of war. 

It is the knowledge of all that caused 
alarm, fear, doubt, storm and war, hav- 
ing come to an end. 

It is the blessed condition into which 
the soul is introduced by the Death, Res- 
urrection, Ascension and Intercession of 
Him who is the Prince of Peace. 

I. — NO TEACE. 

Isa. xlviii:22; lvii:20, 21; lix:8. 

1. The wicked have no peace in their 
acts of wickedness. 

2. The wicked have no Peace in their 
business. 

3. The wicked have no Peace in their 
pleasures. 

4. The wicked have no Peace of con- 
science. 

5. The wicked have no Peace in life. 

6. The wicked have no Peace in death. 

7. The wicked have no Peace beyond 
the grave. 

What is it that brings a man into such 
a state that he is afraid to meet God? A 
man who had not slain his fellow had no 
need to flee to the City of Refuge. A 
man in health need not apply to the Physi- 
cian. A millionaire need not apply to the 
Workhouse. 



Adam was afraid because he had sinned. 
Gen. iii: 10. 

All we like sheep, have gone astray. 
Isa. Hi. 

II. — FALSE PEACE. 

Jer. vi:i4; viii;ii. Ezek. xiii: 10-15. 
Matt. vii:2i-2 7. 

1. Peace derived from the idea that 
there is no God. 

2. Peace derived from the impression 
that there is a God, but that the Bible is 
not of Divine origin. 

3. Peace of the moralist. 

4. Peace of the man who is resting on 
God's mercy. 

5 Peace of the man of good works. 

6. Peace of him whose whole time, 
mind and strength is spent in making 
money. 

7. Peace of the one whose whole 
thought is pleasure. 

8. Peace of the reckless and daring. 

9. Peace of ignorance. 

10. Peace of carelessness, simply ne- 
glecting salvation. Multitudes are found 
here. 

Mothers know this of their children, 
wives of their husbands, husbands of 
their wives, children of their parents, and 
friends of their friends. 

All full of earnestness to have the body 
fed, but sadly neglect the food which 
brings Peace to the soul. 

Sowing to the flesh to reap corruption. 

Living for time — forgetting eternity. 

Striving against the Spirit — losing life 
everlasting. 

Taken up with the world. Forfeit 
Heaven and descend to hell. 

Oh! that men would be wise! 

.III. — PEACE MADE. 

Col. i:i9, 20, 22. Eph. ii:i2, 16, 17. 
This is what had to be done before 
peace could be made. 

1. God Himself had to be satisfied. 

2. His wrath against sin had to be met. 



86 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



3. The great qttestion of Sin had to be 
atoned for. 

The secret of Peace. Sheltered beneath 
the blood. 

Without shedding of blood no remis- 
sion, i. e., no Peace. Heb. ix:22. 

The cup which the blessed Lord drank 
was filled. 

Not with our sense of Sin, but with 
God's wrath and indignation against Sin. 

This was all laid upon One who was 
sinless. Even Jesus, the Peacemaker. 
Isa. liii:4, 5. 

He satisfied every claim of the Divine 
Righteousness, and met every wish of 
God's Eternal Love. 

Until Shiloh (the Peacemaker) come. 
Gen. xlix:io. 

Prince of Peace (700 years). Isa. ix:6. 

Incarnation. Glory to God in the 
highest, on earth Peace. Luke ii : 14. 

He stood a victor and proclaimed the 
result of His anguish. The fruit of His 
sufferings and death. Peace John xiv: 
27; xx:2i. 

How we know that God's righteousness 
is satisfied. Rom. i:3, 4. I Cor. xv:3, 
4. Rom. iv:24_ 

The Holiness of God demanded that 
Christ, who died for Sin, should be raised 
from the dead. 

Our offences are linked with the Cross 
of. Christ. Col. ii:i3, 14. 

Our Justification with the Resurrection 
of Christ. Rom. iv:24. See I Pet. 1:21. 

IV. — GOD DISPOSED TO HAVE PEACE. 

Isa. xxvii:4, 5. Jer. xxix:ii. Ezek. 
xxxiii:ii. 

What is God's strength? Love. How 
manifested. Gift of Jesus His right arm. 
John iii:i6. 

Job. xxii:2i. Acquaint (know God) 
now. Thyself with Him (God) and be 
at Peace. 

II Cor. v:i8-2i. God Himself is 
standing at the side of the Cross of Jesus, 
and is crying out to-dayJay His Word, 



and by His servants, and pointing there- 
unto and saying. Look! oh, look! be- 
hold the Prince of Peace has paid the ran- 
som. 

And again pointing to the peace-mak- 
ing work of the Cross, God says: See then 
the definition of my Gospel — Love in har- 
mony with the Lata. 

V. — HOW PEACE MAY BE OBTAINED. 

1. Hear what God has to say. Ps. 
lxxxv:8, 10. 

2. Believe what God says. Rom. v:i. 
Justified. Justified by Faith. We 

have Peace (R. V. or let us have Peace.) 
Justified, uncondemned. Rom. viii:i. 
John iii:i8. 

Free from the Law. Rom. viii:2. 

The Sin-hating God met the sin-bear- 
ing Christ at Calvary and there and then 
made a full atonement for all Sin of every 
one who believeth. And thus we stand 
justified without anything we have done 
or can do. It is entirely the work of an- 
other who has satisfied the claims of Di- 
vine Justice. Rom. iii:24, 26. 

By Faith. By Faith this is the only 
part we have in the matter. See Acts 
xiii:39. Rom. iii:27, 28. 

Yes, it is by Grace through Faith, and 
all we had to do in this great work was to 
make the death of the Lord Jesus Christ 
a necessity. See Luke vii:50. Luke viii: 
43- 43. 

We have Peace. Peace is the result of 
Justification by Faith. Conscious Peace. 
Reconciliation with God. My God is 
reconciled. II Cor. v:i8. 

Abba Father. Rom. viii: 15. 

Brought into the household of God 
where Peace reigns. See Prodigal. Luke 

XV:20-22. 

Through our Lord Jesus Christ. All 
through Him. He is the channel. See 
Rom. v:6, 8, 11. Acts iv.10. 12. 

Why through Him? He it is who con- 
quered the enemy, and overthrew the foe. 
He stands triumphant over the empty 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



87 



grave. Sin, Death and Hell vanquished. 
See John xx:i4, 20. 

Thus those who are justified have 
Peace with God. Rom. v. 1. 

Access to His presence, v. .\ 

Joy under most adverse circumstances, 
v. 3- 

Assurance of God's Love. vs. 5-8. 

Certainty of final victory, vs. 9, 10. 

VI. — HOW PEACE IS RETAINED OR MAIN- 
TAINED. 

1. By obedience. Is. xlviii:i8. 

2. By obedience of Faith or Trust. 
Isa. xxvi.3. Looking unto Jesus. Heb. 
xii: 1 , 2. 

3. By meekness. Ps. xxxvikn. Fruit 
bearing. Jas. iii:iS. 

4. By Uprightness. Ps. xxxvii:37. 

5. By Letting the Peace of God rule. 
Col. iii : 1 5 - Peace enthroned. Peace King. 

6. By having Peace of God as a garri- 
son. Carefulness for nothing. Prayerful- 
ness for everything. Thankfulness for 
anything. Phil. iv:6, 7. 

7. Love for the Word of God. Ps. 
cxix:i65. 

VII. — THE RESULT, EFFECT, OR BENEFIT 
OF PEACE. 

1. Quietness and assurance forever. 
Isa. xxxii:i7. 

2. Mighty. Constant. Isa. xlviii:i8. 

3. Righteousness. Peace. Joy. Ac- 
cepted with God. Approved of men. 
Rom. xiv.17-19. 

4. Paths of Peace. Steps. Prov. iii : 1 7 . 

5. Peace in trial and trouble. Isa. liv: 
10. 17. 

6. Peace in death. Luke ii:2g. Acts 
vii:6o. 

7. Abundance of Peace when He 
comes. Ps. lxxii:7. 

See John xvi:32, 33. Rom. xv:i3, 33. 



THE GREATEST BUSINESS. 

ON EARTH, IN HEAVEN, OR IN THE UNI- 
VERSE. 

I. God, the Founder. Luke ii:_|.Q. 



2. Godthe Son, the frst Paitiue. Phil. 
ii:5, 6. 

3. God the Holy Spirit, Second Partner. 
I John v:7; I Pet. i:i2; Acts xx:2S. 

4. si Business established upward 0/ 
Six Thousand Years. Gen. i:26; Eph. 
iii:S-u. 

5. A Business wJiich entailed a great 
amotint of suffering. And all for the 
very persons the founder was seeking to 
benefit. Mark viii:3i; I Pet. i:n; ii:2 . 

6. A business that had been well though! 
out. Everything (suffering, trial, perse- 
cution and sacrifice) was fully considered, 
and started with the full understanding 
that it must be carried out. Luke xxii: 
37; xxiv:27, 44. 

7. A business in which each of the 
three principal partners are most actively 
engaged, and are bound to see after each 
other's interests F. S. John v:ig; xviii: 
n; Matt. xxvi:53, 54. H. S. Luke iv: 
1, 14, 18. F. S. and H. S. Acts x:^8; 
John xv:26. 

8. A business in which there has been a 
vast amount of opposition. Nevertheless 
it succeeds, and will certainly continue to . 
do so. John vii:24-30; viii:37; Mark xi; 
18, Luke xx:ig-26; Ps. cxxiv:i-S; cxxv:i; 
Acts v:38, 39; Isa. xlviii.3; Markxiii:g. 

g. A business that is founded 071 Holy, 
Just and Righteous principles, and must 
be carried out accordingly. Luke xxiv: 
25,26. Luke xxiv:46, 47. 

10. A business in which the founders 
are very anxious to have everybody become 
members of the firm. John iii: 14-16; x: 
16; Isa. lv:3; I Cor. i:g. 

11. A business which is confjied to two 
lines Sinners and Grace. I Tim. i : 15 ; 
Eph. ii:4-7; Matt. ix:i3. 

12. A business, open to ail to become 
partners, yet there is but one way by 
which they can enter into partnership. 
John iii 13, 7; xiv.6. Luke xxiv:46, 47; 
John v:24; Acts iv:i2. 

Z2- A business that has grown to very 



88 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



large proportions. Branch establishments 
in all parts of the world. Acts viii : 1-4. 
Col. i:23. 

14. A business that has to do not only 
with this world, but with the world to 
come. Rom. v:2i; John vi:68; Hebrews 
ix:i5. 

15. A business in which the first part- 
ner, having finished His work here, has 
gone to the head office, He having a great 
amount of work to do there. Luke ii:49; 
John xvii 14; John xi v : 2 , 3 . 

it. A business in which every one who 
becomes a partner, is expected to become an 
active member. The Master before leav- 
ing, gave every man his work. Mark 
xvi:i5; Matt, xxviikig; John xx:2i ; I Cor. 
ix:i6; Mark xiii:34. 

17. A business in which every one who 
enters, is furnished with all the capital 
required. Phil, iviic;; Eph. iii:i6; Luke 
xxii:35; II Tim. v.-j. Read I Cor. xiiand 
xiii; I Pet. iv:io. 

18. A business in which time is very 
piecious, there being now but one day to 
work. I Cor. vih-9, R. V. Matt, xxv: 
13; Mark xiii: 35, 37; I Pet. iv:7; Eph. 
v:i5, 16, R. V. 

19. A business which offers great in- 
ducements to all who become partners. I 
Cor. iii. 21-23; H Tim. ii: 12 ; I Pet. iv:i3; 
Rom. viii:i8; II Cor. iv:i7, 18; v:i. 

20. A business, the first partner oj 
which, has promised to return at any mo- 
ment and bring the business to a close. 
Johnxiv:3; Rev. xxii:i2; Amos viii: n, 12. 

21. A business in which all who en- 
gage in it are subject to the founder, and 
will have to give an account of their ser- 
vice to His representative, the first part- 
ner, on his return and will be rewarded 
accordingly. I Cor. hi: 13, 15; II Cor. 
v:io; Rev, xxii:i2, 

LET US BE ABOUT OUR FATHER'S BUSINESS. 



THE LIFE ETERNAL. 
Life. 1. A principle of. 2. A nature 



of. 3. A Person. 4. An experience, 
and 5. Manifestation. 

The Life in and through the nature, 
makes known its elements and qualities. 

Life is shown in sensibility and motion; 
in varied puttings forth and doings; the 
more multitudinous and complex the rela- 
tions; the more fullness of life. The play 
of children, the lightning-like unrest and 
incessant motion of cherubim, the Living 
Ones reveal fulness of Life. 

God as Life, is of infinite fulness, and 
boundless, innumerable relations, the Be- 
ing of beings, and Cause of all other beings. 

In spiritual, holy, redemptive relations, 
God as Life, is Light and Love; holiness 
and mercy; truth and grace; justice and 
goodness; clothed with the beauty of ho- 
liness and power of glory; and all in fel- 
lowship with Him, partake in Christ, the 
Life, and reveal it in the fruit of light 
and of the Spirit, as pure and good, clean 
and sweet, harmonious and joyful, mighty 
and gracious. 

Specifically, this Life of God, when 
shared with God, in Christ the Son, in 
the standing and relationship of sons, is 
the Life Eternal. 

It is made manifest in personal form in 
Jesus Christ. I John i; 1 -3 , v: 1 i-i 3, 20. 

It is defined in John xvii:3; it is the 
life more abundant of John x: 10. 

Taking the standpoint of the O. T. 
and of the first three Gospels. 

1 . Life Eternal is associated with the 
Resurrection of the Just. Dan. xii;2; 
Luke xx:35; Ps. cxxxiii:3. 

2. Life Eternal is associated with the 
Age to come. Markx:3o; Luke xviii: 28-30. 

3. Life Eternal is associated with the 
Regeneration. Matt. xix:28, 29; Titus 

iii:5- 

4. Life Eternal is associated with the 
Kingdom to come. Matt. xxv:34, 46; 
xx:2i; xix:28. 

c. Life Eternal is associated with the 
Messiah to come. Matt. xxv:34. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



•8 9 



In the first the gospels, future, in John 
present, germinal, potential. John i.4: 
iii:36; iv:i4; v.24. 

6. Eternal Life is a gift, but possible 
only through the death of Christ. John 
iii:i4-i6; x:io, 11; Rom. v::i; vi:23. 

7. Eternal Life is an experience possible 
only through the new nature and in 
union with Christ, the Son of God. John 
iii:5, 6; Gal. vi:8; Rom. vi:23: John xvii: 
2; I John v:-o. 

Rev. W. J. Erdman. 



SEEK GOD. 

II Chron. xxxiv:3- 

1. Unnatural. Ps. xiv:2; Ps. liii:2. 

2. Encouragement. I Chron. xxviii:9; 
Matt. vii:7; Isa. xlv .9. 

3. Time. Prow viii- 1 7; II Chron. xxxiv: 
3; Isa. lv:6; Hos. x:i2. 

4. Heart and Faith. Jer. xxix:i3; 
Heb. xi:6. 

5. Blessing. II Chron. xxxiv:3, 26, 27, 
28. Forgiveness and Peace. 

Amos v.4; Ps. lxix:32. Live. 
Prov. xxviii:5. Knowledge. 
Ps. xxxiv: 10. Not want any good. 
(Ps. xxiii.i). 

6. Warning. Prov. i:2S; Luke xiii: 
24-27. 

7. Wise conclusion. II Chron. xv:i2; 
Ps. lxiii:i. See Sol. Songs iii; 1-4. 

If thou seek Him, He will be found of 
thee; but if thou forsake Him, He will 
cast thee off forever. 

BLACK. 

Blackness of sin. Lam. iv:8. 

Blackness of sickness. Job. xxx:3C 

Blackness of sorrow. Jer. viii:2i; Ps. 
cxix:83. 

Blackness of want. Lam. v:io. 

Blackness of service. Cant. 1:5. 

Blackness of youth. Matt. v:36; cf. 
Cant, v: 1 1 . 

Blackness of judgment. Isa. 1:3; Jude 
13. S. E. H. 



TWO MEN. 

1. Two Builders. Matt. vii:24"27. 

2. Two Worshipers. Luke xviii:g-i4. 

3. Two Thieves. Luke xxiii:39-43. 

4. Two Beggars. Luke xviii : 17-43. 



BLOT OUT. 

1 Sinners blotted out. Ex. xxxii:33. 

2. Prayer for sin to be blotted out. Ps. 
li:i, 9. 

3. God only can blot out sin. Isa. xliii: 

25. 

4. Repentance and conversion neces- 
sary that sins may be blotted out. Acts 
iii: 19 

5. Sin has been blotted out. Isa. xliv:22. 

6. Sin blotted out on the cross. Col. 
ii:i4. 

7. The Believer not blotted out of the 
Book of Life. Rev. iii: 5. 



THE GREAT QUESTION. 

Mark viii:34-37- 

TWO LEADERS. 

Loss — Satan. 

Who is this arch enemy of God and 
man ? 

His Beginning. Gen. iii: 1-5. See Rev. 
xii:7-9. 

Name. 

Serpent. Subtle decision. Gen. iii:i. 

Satan, Adversary, Enemy. Rev. xiLg. 

Dragon, Monster. Rev. xir.9. 

Devil, Destroyer. Rev. xx:2. 

Man of Sin. II Thess. ii 13. 

Character. 

Prince of Darkness. Eph. vi:i2. 

Tempter. Matt. iv:3. 

Tormentor. Matt, xviii: 34. 

Liar. John viii:44. 

God of this World. II Cor. iv:4. 

What has he Done? 

Rebellion in Heaven. Rev. xii:7. 

Rebellion on Earth. Gen iii: 1-4. 

Sin and Death. Rom. v:i2. 

What is he Doing ? 

Blinding men. II Cor. iv.4. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Deceiving men, II Thess. 11:9, 10; 
Rev. xii:g. 

Binding men. Luke xiii:i6. 

Devouring men. I Pet. v:8. 

Murdering men. John viii:44. 

What will he do? 

Continue to Blind, Bind, Deceive, De- 
vour and Murder men. II Thess. ii : 7. 

Settle up with his servants. Rom. 6:23. 

His End. 

Bruised. Rom. xvi:20. 

Bound. Rev. xx:2, 3. 

Cast into a Lake of Fire. Rev. xx:io. 

His Followers with him. Matt, xxv: 
41 ; Rev. xii::o, 15. 

Profit— On ist. 

Who ? The Well Beloved Son of God 
and Saviour of Men. 

His Beginning. Equal with God. Phil. 
ii:6. See John i:i, 2. 

Name. 

Jesus, Saviour. Matt. i:2i. 

Emanuel, God with us Matt, i 123. 

Christ, Sent of God. Luke ix:20. 

Lord, All Power. Ps. xxvii:i; Matt. 
xxviii:i8. 

Character. 

Guileless. I Pet ii;22. 

Undefiled. Heb. vii:2 6. 

Harmless. Heb. vii:26. 

Friend of Sinners. Matt. xi:io,; Luke 
xix:io. 

Compassionate. Mark viii:2. 

Unselfish. Phil. ii:7. 

Righteous. I John ii:i. 

What has He Done? 

He came to man. Phil. \v~. 

He came to save. I Tim. 1:15. 

He came to give life. John x:io. 

He has made peace- Eph. ii : 1 5 . 

He has given His life a ransom. I Tim. 
ii:6. 

He has put away sin. Heb. ix::6. 

He has delivered us. Gal. i:4. 

He hath redeemed us. Titus ii : 14. 

Died to save us. I Pet. iii:i8. 
What He is Doing. 



He is living to save. Heb. vii:25. 

He is pleading our cause. I John ii:!. 

He is preparing a place. John xiv:2. 

He is guiding. Ps. xxxii:8. 

He is caring for us. Ps. xxiii:i-3. 

He is watching over us. Ps. xxxiv:7. 

He is keeping us. Ps. cxxi:3. 

What will He Do ? 

He will come again. Acts i:ii. 

He will come again to receive us unto 
Himself. Johnxiv:3. 

He will come to be glorified in His 
Saints. II Thess. i:io. 

His End. 

No end. Ps. Ixxii:i7. 

His followers with Him in Heaven. 
Rom. vi;8. [viii:i7. 

His followers with Him in Glory. Rom. 

His followers with him on the Throne. 
Rev. xx:6. 

Loss and Gain. See Phil. iii:4~i t . 



THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 

1. The need of forgiveness. Rom. iii: 
23; I John i:io. See John viii:3-g. 

2. Is it possible to have forgiveness? 
Ps. cxxx:3, 4; II Pet. Hi: 9-. 

3. The ground on which I can hope 
forgiveness. John i:29; Luke xxiv:46, 47. 
Acts xiii:38; Col. i: 14. 

4. Without merit on the sinner's part. 
Luke vii.41, 42; Eph. i:7, 1. c. 

5. The character of the forgiveness. Isa. 
i:i8: lv:7; Acts xiii:39; P s - ciii: 12. 

6. Assurance of forgiveness. Matt, ix: 
2; Eph. r.7; Acts xiii:3g. 

7. Who may have forgiveness. Acts. 
xiii:26; John iii:i6; Acts x:43. 

8. How may I have it. Ps. 11:4; xxxii: 
5, I John i:9; Acts X43; Johniii-iS, See 
Lev. i:4; Proverbs xxviii:i3. 

9. When may I have it? II Cor. vi:2; 
Isa. i:i8. A r ozo. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF DIVINE 
FORGIVENESS. 

1. God's. Eph. iv:32; Jer. xxxiii'-8; 
Luke xxiii:34; Jer. xxxi:34. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



9 1 



2. Gracious. Eph. i: 7, 1. c; Ps. lxxxvi: 

15. 

3. Righteous. Rom. iii:25, 26. 

4. Free. Rom. v:l5-i8. 

5. Abundant. Isa. lv:7 ; Ps. ciii:3, 12. 

6. Present. I John ii:i2; Rom. iv:7; 
Eph i:7; Mark ii : 5 

7. Complete. Isa. i:i3; Heb. x:l4, 
17; Isa. xliii:25. 

GOD'S FEELINGS TOWARD SIN- 
NERS. 

Isa. lv:7-9. 

1. Angry with the wicked. Isa. lxiii: 
9, 10; Ezek. xxii:2i, 22. 

2. Unwilling to punish. II Pet. iii:9; 
Ezek. xxxiii:ii; Jonah iv:ii. 

3. Glad to forgive. Isa. i: 1 8 ; I John 
ii:i, 2. 

4. Rejoices over the forgiven. Lukexv: 
6, 7, 22-24; Isa. lxii:3-5. 

Helps for Christian Workers, 



SINNERS' HIDING PLACE. 

1. Hiding from the Presence of God 
Gen. hi: 8, 10; Job xxxiv:2i, 22; Matt 
x:26; Amos ix:2-4. 

2. Hiding under a false Hope. Ps. x: 
II; Job viii:i3- 6 

3. Hiding under false Peace. I Thess 
v:3; Matt, xxv.44, 46 

4. Hiding under Self-Righteousness 
Luke xviii:ii, 12; Job xxix; Rom. x:i,4. 

5. Hiding under God's Works. Acts 
viii:g-i 3, 18-23. 

6. Hiding under a Lie. Acts v:i-n; II 
Kings v.25; Isa. xxviii:i7. 

7. Hiding place desired under moun- 
tains and rocks. Rev. vi:i2-i7. 



LIFE OR DEATH. 

Deut. xxx:i5. See, I have set before 
thee this day life and good, and death and 
evil. 

I. — THE CARNAL MIND IS 

Guilty. 



Rom. Hi : 1 q. Now we know that what 
things soever the law saith, it saith to 
them who are under the law; that every 
mouth may be stopped, and all the world 
may become guilty before God. 

John hi: 1 8, 19. He that believeth not 
is condemned already, because he hath 
not believed in the name of the only be- 
gotten Son of God. And this is the con- 
demnation, that light is come into the 
world, and men loved darkness rather than 
light, because their deeds were evil. 

A Captive. 

Rom. vii:'4, 23. For we know that 
the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold 

under sin I see another law in my 

members, warring against the law of my 
mind, and bringing me into captivity to 
the law of sin which is in my members. 

Doomed to Death. 

Rom. vii:24. O wretched man that I 
am ! who shall deliver me from [out of] 
the body of this death ? 

James i ; 1 5 When lust hath conceived, 
it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is 
finished [full grown], bringeth forth death. 

II. — THE SPIRITUAL MAN HAS 

Forgiveness. 

Col. ii : 13, 14. And you, being dead 
in your sins and the uncircumcision of your 
flesh, hath He quickened together with 
Him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 
blotting out the handwriting of ordinan- 
ces that was against us, which was con- 
trary to us, and took it out of the way. 
nailing it to His cross. 

Libei ty. 

Isa lxi:i. He hath sent me to bind 
up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty 
to the captives, and the opening of the 
prison to them that are bound. 

John viii:32. Ye shall know the truth, 
and the truth shall make you free. 

Rom. viii.l. There is, therefore now 
no condemnation to them which are in 
Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, 
but after the Spirit. 



< 9 2 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Eternal Life. 

II Tim. i:io. Who hath abolished 
death, and hath brought life and immor- 
tality to light through the gospel. 

John v:24. [He that heareth my word 
and believeth Him that sent me, hath eter- 
nal life, and cometh not into judgment 
but hath passed out of death into life.] 

III. — PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WHO PERSE- 
VERE IN SIN. 

Prov. xxix:i. 

Sure. Jer. viiii.12, 13; Heb. ii:2-4. 

Sudden. Isa. xxx:i3; xlviku; xxix 
5,6. 

Fearful. Isa xxviihiy, 18; Heb. x:28- 

3'- 

No Remedy. II Chron. xxxvi:i6 
Rev. xxii:ii. 

Helps for Christian Workers 



COME. 



1. Who Gives the Invitation? 
The Lord said, Come. Gen. vii:i. 
Jesus said, Come. John vii.37. 
Come unto Me. Matt. xi:28. 

2. Who are Invited? 
Come, Thou. Gen. vii:'. 
Come, every one. Isa. lv:i. 
Come, any man. John vii.37. 
Come, Little children. Luke xviii:i6. 

3. Come for Life. 

Life inside, come. Gen. vii: 1. 
Life abundantly, come. John x:io. 
Life everlasting, come. John vi:47. 
Have life, Come. John v:40. 

4. Come for Rest. 

Give thee rest, Come. Ex. xxxiii:i4. 

I will give thee Rest. Come. Matt. 
xi:28. 

Quiet Resting place. Come. Isa. xxxii: 
18. 

5. Come, Feast. 
Come, Eat. .Prov. ix:5. 

My dinner, Come. Matt. xxii:4. 
Great supper. Come. Luke xiv:i7, 18. 

6. Come When ? 



All ready. Come. Luke xiv:i7. 
Come, now. Isa. i:i8. 
Now, Come. II Cor vi:2. 
7. Come. Last Appeal. 
Come. Rev. xxii:i7. 



WITHOUT. 

1. Without God. Eph ii:i2. 

2. Without Blood. Heb. ix:22. See 
Isa. liii:io. 

3. Without Strength. Rom. v:6. Do 
it. Luke x:28. Can't — Why. Rom. v:6. 

4. Without Price. The Redemption 
secured by Christ for us, when we were 
without strength, and offered without 
money, without price. Isa. lv:i, 

5. (But) Without Faith, we cannot ac- 
cept the Redemption, and without faith it 
is impossible to please God. Heb. xi.6. 

6. For, Without Holiness. Holiness in 
this life. Heb. xii:i4. 

7. For, Without Works; and no good 
works apart from Christ, James ii:26. 

8. For, Without Me. John xv:5. 



THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS 
AND WICKED CONTRASTED. 

1. Not Condemned. John v:24. Con- 
demned. John Hi: 18. 

2. Rest. Isa. xxxii:i8. No Rest. Isa. 
lvii:20. 

3. Peace. Ps. cxix:i65. No Peace. 
Isa. lvii:2i 

4. Salvation. Isa. xii:2. 3. No Salva- 
tion. II Peter ii : 1 7. 

5. Light. Prov. iv:i8. Darkness. Prov. 
iv:ig. 

6. Life. Rom. vi:23 1. c Death. Rom. 
vi;23 f. c. 

7. Hope. Prov. xiv:32. Despair. Prov. 
xiv:32. 

8. Come ye blessed. Matt. xxv:34. 
Depart ye cursed. Matt. xxv:4L 

9. Heaven. Rev. xxi:4. Hell Rev. 
xxi:S. 

See Rev. xxii:u; Mai. iii: 1 7, iS. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



THE NEW BIRTH. 

Its nature. John ill : 3 ; II Cor. viy; 
Gal. vi.'5; John v:2_i; I John iii : 1 4. ; 
Rom. viii:29; Col. i- 13 ; Eph. iv:24. 

Its author. John iii : 5 , 6; II Cor. iii: 
18; Titusiii:5. 

Its evidences. I John v:4; John xvii:i6 
II Cor. vi:i7, iS; I John iii:8, 9; Rom 
vi:8; I John iv:7, S; I John iii: 14. 

Its necessity. John iii:6; Gal. v:i7 
Rom. viii:5' Matt. v:S; Heb. xii:i4; Rev. 
xxi:27. 

We are born again through belief of the 
truth. James i:i8; I Pet. i:23; I Cor. iv: 
15; Rom. x: 17; Eph. v:26. 

Anon. 



" LOSE HIS OWN SOUL"— "LIFE.' 

Mark viii:36. 

1. Whence it came. Gen. ii:7. 

2. Demands. Deut. vi:5. 

3. Penalty. Ezek. xviii:^. 

4. Loss. Prov. viii:36. 

5. Uncertainty. Jas iv.14; Luke xii:20. 

6. What hope. Job xxvii:S. 

7. Redemption. How? Life for life. 
Lev. xvii: 11 ; Ps. xlix:8; Isa. liii;io, 12, 
Matt. xxvi:38; Isa. xliii:i. 

(Is a man's soul his own, now ?) 

8. Assurance. Ps. lvi : 1 3 ; cxvi:8; Isa. 
xxxviii:i7. 

9. Duty. I Cor. vr.19, 20. 
" Follow Me." 

GOD A REFUGE. 

A refuge is for those in trouble. Ps. 
ix:9; P s - xlvi:i; Isa. xxv:4. 

For those pursued by the avenger. 
Num. xxxv : 1 1 ; Luke iii: 7. 

This refuge strong and secure. Heb 
vi:iS; Ps. xci:g-i3. 

Near at hand. Rom. x:S, 10. 

None ever refused admittance. John 
vi:37; Matt. vii:S. 

No other refuge safe. Isa. xxviii:i7; 
Acts iv: 1 2. Anon. 



SOME THINGS SAID ABOUT 
ETERNAL LIFE. 

1. The record given. I Johnv:io, 11. 

2. Effect of hearing and believing. 
John v:24. 

3. Knowledge. Jer. ix:23, 24; Jno. xvii: 
3; vi:54. 

4. What Jesus said. John xiv:6; iii: 
15, 16; x:2S; Rom. vi:23. 

5. Paul's great statement. Gal. ii:2o; 
Rom. x:io; Rom. viii:34, 39. 

6. The promise. I John ii 125 . 

7. Called to eternal life. I Tim. vi: 
12; II Tim. iv:7. 

W. M. Grimes. 



JUSTIFICATION. 

1 . How can man be Justified with- 
God? 

Job xxv.4; Rom. iii::o; iii:2S; Titus, 
iii :7; Rom. iii: 24; v:i, 9; I Cor. vi:ii; 
Gal. ii:i6. 

2. Who can forgive sin? 

Mark ii:7; Mark ii: 10; Isa. xliii:25; I 
John i:g; Ps. Ixxxvks; Jer. xxxi:34; Ps. 
ciii :3 ; cxxx.4; Actsv:3i; Dan. ix:9; Ex.. 
xxxiv:7. 

3. How shall zue be forgiven ? 

II Chron. vii:i4; Jer. xxxvi:3; Matt. 
vi:i4; Luke vi:37; I John i:g; Acts xiii: 
38; Eph. i'7; Col. i:i4. 

4. Shall the lawful captive be delivered? 
Isa. xlix:24; Isa. xlix:25. 

5. Who is he that condemneth? 
Rom. viii:34; Job x:i4; Rom. iii:ig; 

Ex. xxxiv:7. 

6. What is the condemnation ? 
John iii : 1 9 ; John iii:i8. 

Anon. 



FORGIVENESS. 

Promised. Isa. i: 1 8 ; Jer. xxxi:34; Jer. 
l:2o; Heb. viii: 12. 

Through Christ. Lev. xvii:ii; Heb. 
ix:22; Zech. xiii : 1 ; I John i:7; Eph. i:7; 
Rom. iii:25 ; Col. i:i4; Luke i:77, 78; Acts: 
v:3i; Acts xiii:38. 



94 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Freely, readily, abundantly. Isa. xliii 
25; Neh. ix:i7; Ps. lxxxvijs; Isa. Ivi : 7 ; 
Rom. v:2o. 

Anon. 



NECESSITY OF THE NEW BIRTH 

Ye must be born anew. John iii ; 7 

The Fact. 

Being darkened in their understanding, 
alienated from the life of God because of 
the ignorance that is in them, because of 
the hardening of their heart. Eph. iv:i8. 

The Reason. 

Man looketh on the outward appear- 
ance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. 
I Sam. xvi:7. 

Your Heart is Deceitful. 

The heart is deceitful above all things, 
and it is desperately sick. Jer. xvii:g. 

Your Heart is Deceived. 

A deceived heart both turned him aside 
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is 
there not a lie in my right hand ? ' Isa. 
xliv:20. 

You are not in the Spirit, but in the 
Flesh 

The natural man receiveth not the 
things of the Spirit of God: for they are 
foolishness unto him; and he cannot know 
them, because they are spiritually judged. 
I Cor. ii:i4 

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the 
spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God 
dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not 
the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His- 
Rom viii:g. 

You cannot Please God. 

The mind of the flesh is enmity against 
God; for it is not subject to the Law of 
God, neither indeed can it be. Rom. 
viii:7. 

You are Hostile to God. 

And they that are in the flesh cannot 
please God. Rom. viii.8. 

You have Nothing Good. 

Though I myself might havej:onfidence 
even in the flesh I know that in me, 



that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good 
thing; for to will is present with me, but 
to do that which is good is not. Phil. Hi: 
4; Rom. vii:i8 

Helps for Christian Workers. 



THE GOSPEL. 

Variously called: 

1 The Gospel — meaning "good news" 
— glad tidings, is the revelation of the 
grace of God to fallen man through a 
Mediator — God's life-giving message to a 
dying world. 

2. The Gospel of God. Rom. i:i; xv:2o,. 
"The Gospel of which God is the glorious 
author." 

3. The glorious Gospel of the blessed 
God. I Tim. i:n. Gospel of the glory 
(Gr.) is "the joyful message of the glory 
of the happy (blessed) God," and indicates 
its immortality and supreme happiness. 

4. The Gospel of the grace of God. 
Acts xx:24- It proceeds from and mani- 
fests the grace or favor cf God. 

5. The Gospel of Christ. (Rom. i:i6) 
the anointed One, is the glad news of a 
Gospel preached to the poor, of the One 
sent to heal the broken-hearted — to preach' 
deliverance to the captives, and recovery 
of sight to the blind — to set at liberty 
them that are bruised — the acceptable 
year of the Lord. Luke iv:iS, ig. 

6. The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Mark 
1:1. The blessed story of the life, minis- 
try, death, resurrection and glorification 
of the anointed Saviour, and the gather- 
ing of believers in His name. 

7. The Gospel of your salvation. Eph. 
1:13. Brings the news of salvation; offers 
it; and shows the way to attain to it. It 
works grace to fit men for, and bring 
them to salvation. 

8. The Gospel of peace. Eph. vi:i5. 
Represents the tranquility, calmness and 
quiet of conscience produced by the work 
of Christ for man. 

9. The Gospel of His Son. Rom. i:o,. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



95 



Shows the relationship of the "Sent One" 
to the "Sender," (John iii:i6) through 
whom all the blessings of salvation flow. 

10. The Gospel of the uncircumcision, 
because preached to the uncircumcised or 
Gentile nations. Gal. 'wj. 

ii. The Gospel of the Kingdom. Matt 
xxiv:i4. Relates to the Kingship and Do 
minion of Christ and His final possession 
of the throne of His Father David. Luke 
1:32, 33- 

12. The everlasting Gospel (Rev. xiv:6) 
yet to be preached — when "nations shall 
be born in a day." 

Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 

GOD'S THOUGHTS OF OUR SINS. 

Man wholly a Sinner. Gen. vi:5. Ps. 
xiv:2, 3; lviii.3. Eccl viii:n. Jer. xvii: 
9. Matt. xv:i8-20. Rom. viii:7, 8 

Man a guilty Sinner. Gen. iii:8-n. 
Isa. lxiv:6. Rom. iii.19; iii:23; v:i2, 14. 
Gal. iii;22. 

Man a condemned Sinner. Gen. iv: 
10-12. Ps. xxxii.:. Gen. ix:6. John 
xv:22; iir.19, 20. Rom. i:i8. John 
xvi:c> 

Man a pardoned Sinner. Isa i:i8; lv 
7. Luke xxiv:47. Heb viii:i2. Rom. 
viiiri, 2. 

Man a forgiven Sinner. Ps. cxxx:4. 
II Sam. xii:i3: Ps. lxxxv:2. I John ii: 
12. 

Man a redeemed Sinner. Isa. xliii: 1 ; 
xliv:22. Eph. i:7. I Cor. r.30. Heb. 
ix:i2. 

Man a saved Sinner. John iii:i4, 15; 
iii:i6; iii:i7; iii : 1 S ; iii:36. 

Anon. 



A SAVIOUR, JESUS. 
Acts xiii:23. 

1. The faithful saying. I Tim. i : 1 5 . 
Luke ii:ii. 

2. He is able to save to the uttermost. 
Heb. vii:25. 

3. Is the same forever. Heb. xiii:8. 



4. Exalted. Acts v: 31. 

5. We look for his return. 
Titus ii : 1 3. 



Phil. iii:20. 



WARRANT FOR COMING TO 
CHRIST. 

1. We are permitted to come. "Who- 
soever will, let him take of the water of 
life freely." Rev. xxii:i7. 

2. We are invited to come. "Come 
unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy 
laden, and I will give you rest." Matt. 
xi.-28. 

3. We are enh-eated to come. "Now 
then we are ambassadors for Christ, as 
though God did beseech you by us, we 
pray you in Christ's stead, be ye recon- 
ciled to God." II Cor. v:20. 

4. We zxz comi?ianded to comz. "This 
is His commandment, that we should be- 
lieve on the name of His Son Jesus 
Christ." I John iii:23. 

5. We are compelled to come. "Go 
out into the highways and hedges, and 
compel them to come in, that My house 
may be filled." Luke xiv:23. 

6. We are assured 'of a present and cer- 
tain salvation if we come. "God so loved 
the world that He gave His only begotten 
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 
should not perish, but have everlasting 
life." John iii: 16. 

7. The sinner will be lost forever if he 
does not come. "He that believeth not 
shall be damned." Mark xvi:i6 

.Rev. J. H. Brookes. 

THIS MAN RECEIVETH SINNERS. 

1. That He might save them. John 
xii:47. I Cor. 1:31. I Tim. i 15. Heb. 
vii:25. Matt. i:2i; xviii.n. 

2. That they might banquet with Him. 
Songs of Sol. ii:4. Luke x v. 2. Rev. iii. 20. 

3. That He might give them everlast- 
ing life. John 1:4: v:40; vi:53. 57; xi: 
25;. xx:3'l. I John v:i2. Rev. ii:io. I 
John i:i. 



9 6 



NOTES FOR EIELE READINGS. 



4. Because they are His. Gen. ii:7. 
Johni:3. Mai. ii:io. Heb. ii:9. 

HOW? 

1. On the ground of His atonement. 
Heb. ix:22. Matt. xxvi:28. Isa. llii : 5 , 6. 
Rev. v:g. 

2. Through faith. Rom. iii: 25, 30. 
Gal. iii:8. Eph. ii:8. Phil, iii iq. II 
Tim. iii: 15. I Pet. 1:5. Matt. ix:22. 

WHEN? 

I. Now. Jer. xxv:5; xxxv:i5. Zech. 
i:4. Mai. iii:io. Luke xiv:i7. John 
iv:23. II Cor. vi:2. John xvi:3i. 

(a) Because to-morrow is uncertain. 
Prow xxvii:i. Isa. xlviko,. Heb. iii:i5. 
Rev. xvii:i2; xviii:8, 10, 17, 19; xvki.5. 
Matt. xxiv:42; xxv:i3- 

WHERE ? 

1. In the church. Luke iv:i6-22; 
xviii:io-i4. 

2. On the street. Acts ix:3-6; iv:4. 

3. In the train or carriage. Acts viii: 
27.36. 

4. At home. Acts xvi:30-33; x:30-33. 

5. Anywhere. John iv 119-24. Acts 
x:35- 



MY BESETTING SIN; HOW CAN I 
GET STRENGTH TO OVER- 
COME IT? 

Rom. vii:i5-24; Ps. xxvii:i4; Ps. xxix: 
11; Isa. xl:25-3i; Ps. lxviii:35; Heb. xi: 
31-34; Rom. viii:26; Rom. vii:25; Rom. 
viii: 1, 2; Heb.xiin, 2. 

R. R. McBurney, 



THE "COMES" OF SCRIPTURE 

"COMES" OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
Come and see. John i:3g. 
Come unto Me. Matt. xi:28. 
Comedown. Lukexix:5. 
Come ■ . apart and rest. Mark vi:3i. 
Come forth. John xi:43. 
Come and dine. Johnxxi:i2. 
Come, ye blessed. Matt^xxv:34. 
I will come again. John xiv:3. 



SEVEN OTHER ' ' COMES. 

Come into the ark. Gen. vii:i. 

Come, let us reason together. Isa i:i8„ 

Come, My people, enter into thy cham- 
bers. Isa. xxvi'.20. 

Come ye to the waters. Isa. lv:i. 

Come out and be ye separate. II Cor. 
vi:i7. 

Come out of her, My people. Rev. 
xviii:4. 

Come up hither. Rev. iv.i. 

Anon. 



WHY DON'T SINNERS BELIEVE 
CHRIST? 

1. For the extraordinary reason that He 
tells them the truth. John viii:44. 

(a) Truth don't suit them since they 
are under their father's influence, and there 
is no truth in him. John viii: 44. 

(b) Unbeliever, give up your father's 
lies, and receive the word of truth. Jas. 
i:2i; Tohnxiv:6. 

(c) See the danger to which you are ex- 
posing yourself. II. Thess. ii:io, 11, 12. 

2. Because their highest ambition is to 
have the honor and praise of men. John 
v:44. 

(a) See their character a little developed. 
Jude 16; II Tim. iii:2. 

(b) See their ancestors. Matt. vi:2. 

(c) See the true contrasted with these 
in Rom. ii:29; II Cor. x:i8. 

3. Because they really don't want to 
believe. John v:40. 

(a) They are unwilling that their doings 
should be exposed. John iii: 19, 20. 

(b) They are like the destitute boy who 
wept bitterly, as he was being stripped 
of his rags for decent clothing, crying, 
" But they're all my very own." Like 
those in Rom. x:3. 

(c) They hate Jesus — none believe those 
they hate. John vii:7,5. Compare John 
xv:i9. 

George Thom. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



97 



SEVEN ASPECTS OF SALVATION. 

i. We are saved from the "penalty" of 
sin. I Pet. iii:i8. 

2. We are saved from the "power" of 
sin. Rom. vi:7. 

3. We are saved from the "power" of 
Satan. Acts xxvi:iS. 

4. We are saved from the "power" of 
the world. Gal. i:.i. 

5. We are saved from the " power" of 
the law. Rom. x'4. 

6. We are saved from the " power' 
of wrath. I Thess. i:9, io. 

7. We shall be saved from the "pres- 
ence" of sin. Heb. ix;28. 

A. G. A. 



CAN WE KNOW? 

Bible written that we may. I John v: 

13. 

2. Gospel good news. Luke ii:io. 
(a) Good news of what ? Answer. I 

Cor. xv:i-4; Isa. liii: 5 , 6. 

3. By knowing this good news of sins 
atoned for, we go free. John viii:32. 

4. Christ knows, and we know. John 
x:i/|. 

5. Do we know those who belong to 
our family, and who eat with us ? We eat 
with Him. Rev. iii:20. 

6. We may know heaven to be ours. II 
Cor. v.i. 

(a) Christ pledges His word for it. Jno. 
xiv:i-4; v. 24; iii: 1 5 , 16, 18, 33, 36. 

(b) We will reach the place since ' ' the 
way" (Christ) we know. John xiv.4. 

(c) To know Christ is to trust Him for 
heaven and all. II Tim. i: 12. 

7. Faith is believing not feeling. John 
iv:49, 50. 

8. Why we err in this and other mat- 
ters. Mark xii:24. 

9. " Do ye now believe?" John xvi:3i. 

}. D. Gold. 



SALVATION. 
Fundamental Truth. Jer. iii : 23 ; I 
7 



Thess. v:5. Salvation of God is of His 
appointment. 

Comes to us through Christ. John iii: 
17; Heb. v:9; Matt, xviir.ii; John iii: 14, 
15; Rom. iv:25; Acts v:3i. 

Design of Salvation. Matt. i:2i; Rom. 
v:g; Gal. i:4; John iii:i6, 17. 

Evidences of a state of Salvation. Rom. 
xiv:i7; I Pet. i:8; I John iii: 14; Ps, i:2; 
Ps. cxix:8i; Ps. xcvii; Ps. cii; Heb. vi:g, 
10. 

Salvation emphasized and illustrated. 
Jude 3, Heb. vii:25; Heb. v:9; Heb. i i : 3 ; 
II Tim. iii: 10. 

A present salvation. I Cor. vi:2; Heb. 
iv:7. 

How obtained. John iii 136 ; Matt, xi: 
23; Matt, vii.71 Isa. xlv:22; Rev. xxii:i7. 

Anon, 

CHRIST SEEKING LOST SHEEP. 

Never returns till sought for. Matt. 
xviii:ii-i4. 

Lost sheep exposed to many dangers. 
I Sam. xvii;34-37; I Pet. v:8. 

One sheep wandering leads others 
astray. Isa. liii. 6. 

A lost sheep the shepherd's special care. 
Isa. xl:ii; Ezek. xxxiv:|2, 13, 16. 

Gives joy to the shepherd when found. 
Luke xv:4-7. 

Follows the shepherd ever after. John 
x:27; I Pet. ii 125. 

Anon. 



ETERNAL FUTURE PUNISH- 
MENT. 

A Day of Judgment. Acts xvii:3o; II 
Pet. ii : q ; Jude 14. 15; Rev. xi:i8; Rev. 
xx::2, 13. 

Doom of the Wicked. Ps. xi:5, 6; 
Mai. iv: 1 ; Matt. vii:22, 23; I Cor. vi:g, 
10; Matt. xiii:40-4--; Matt xxv.J5, 4 r >; 
Luke xiir.25-27. 

Terror of the wicked. Heb. x:3i; 
Rev. vi : 1 5-1 7. 

Separation of Wicked from Just. Ms.tt. 



9 8 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



xiii:47-5o; Matt. xxv:32, 33; Rev. xxii: 
11. 

Anguish of Wicked. Matt. xxv:3o; 
Luke xvi:22-24; Luke xvi:25, 26. 

Punishment Final and Eternal. Matt. 
xii:32; Luke iii: 1 7 ; Mark ix:45, 46; II 
Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. xiv:g-n. 

Ano.m. 

CONFESSION AND COUNSEL. 

Knowing myself a sinner before God 
(Rom. iii:23). exposed to the penalty of 
the law, and knowing that Christ having 
died to redeem me (Rom. iv:25), now in- 
vites me to come to Him and be saved. 
Matt, xi 128-30. 

1. I now receive the Lord Jesus Christ 
as my personal Saviour (John i: 12), trust 
Him in my heart, confess Him (Rom. x: 
10), and commit the keeping of my soul 
to Him forever. II Tim i:i2. 

2. I accept from Him the new heart 
(Ezek. xxxvi:26) and new life (Rom. vi: 
23), and the promised gift of the Holy 
Ghost for life and service. Acts ii: 38 ; 
xix:2. 

3. I now turn away, with hatred, from 
all known sins and yield myself up in 
love to my Redeemer, wholly and forever 
in a consecrated life. I Pet. ii:g; Rom. 
xii:i. 

COUNSEL. 

Having thus received Christ and been 
received by Him, it is His desire that you 
live a life of peace, joy, usefulness and 
victory. John xiv:27; I Johni:4, 5; John 
xv :8; Gal. v:i6. 

1. When tempted with doubts and 
fears as to standing or ' holding out," 
read John v:24; Rom. viii:33-3g; J onn x: 
27-29. Keep the order of salvation — fact, 
faith, feeling. Act on principle, even if 
against feeling, and if you have sinned 
read I Johnii:i, 2; I John i:g. 

2. Study the word and pray daily; be 
progressive Disciples; aslrthe Holy Spirit 



to interpret it; obey God's will at once and 
fully. John v:39; J onn xiv:i5; John xvi: 
13, Begin the day with secret prayer, 
and keep in constant fellowship with Jesus. 
Matt. vi:6; Heb. xiii 115. 

" Have a place and a time to pray, 
And read the Bible every day." 

3. Stand up boldly for Jesus every- 
where and at all times. Show your colors. 
Be a faithful witness. Have the courage 
of your convictions Cultivate "Irrepress- 
ible Christianity." Matt. x;32, 33; Acts 
iv:i3. 

4. Separate yourself manifestly from 
the character, course and doom of the 
Christ-rejecting World, and present a con- 
trast. Beware of all close social, busi- 
ness, marital or brotherhood alliances and 
fellowship. Salvation is by separation. 
If you cannot be " singular" you cannot 
be saved. Avoid even doubtful ways 
Jas. iv:4; II Cor. vi:i4, 8; Rom. xii:2. 
" Dare to do right; dare to be true." 

5. Love God's people and make their 
good fellowship your choice. Use dili- 
gently the ordinances through which you 
are kept. It is your privilege to enjoy 
assurance. Do not stumble at a straw 
and turn away. Don't be a sectarian but 
a Christian. Don't imitate backsliders, but 
Christ. John iii:i4-ig; Heb. x.25; I 
Cor. xi:i. 

6. Be a Christian at work. God calls, 
equips and sendi. you. Your eternal life is 
a gift, but your proportionate reward is 
earned. Salvation is not a selfish luxury 
but a solemn trust. Unless you are a 
working Christian, you are a worthless 
one. John xv:i6; Dan. xii.3; II Tim. 
iv:7, 8; Rev. xxii:i2. 

7. Love, look for, and hasten the com- 
ing of your Lord. Keep the girdle, the 
staff and the lamp. Be holy, zealous and 
wise. Separate, consecrate, concentrate. 
Titus ii: 12- 15. 

Pastor E. P. Marvin. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



99 



YOUNG CONVERTS. 

You need spiritual food and exercise, 
and should grow and bear fruit. 

Food. 

As new-born babes desire the sincere 
milk of the word, that ye may grow- 
thereby. I Pet. ii:2. 

I am the bread of life; he that cometh 
to me shall never hunger; and he that be- 
lieveth on me, shall never thirst. John 

vi:35- 
Exercise. 

They that feared the Lord spake often 
one to another; and the Lord hearkened, 
and heard it. Mai. iii:i6. 

Ye may all prophesy one by one, that 
all may learn, and all may be comforted. 
I Cor. xiv:3i. 

By him therefore let us offer the sacri- 
fice of praise to God continually, that is 
the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His 
name. Heb. xiii:i5. 

Growth. 

Till we attain unto the unity of the faith, 
and of the knowledge of the Son of God. 
to a full-grown man, unto the measure of 
the stature of the fullness of Christ. Eph. 
iv:?3. 

Fruitage. 

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, 
peace, long-suffering, gentleness, good- 
ness, faith. Gal. v:22. 

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of 
life; and he that is wise winneth souls. 
Prov. xi:30. 

Helps for Christian Workers. 

CHRIST, THE MEASURE OF THE 

BELIEVER'S SEPARATENESS 

FROM THE WORLD AND 

HIS ENTRANCE INTO IT. 

They are not of the world, even as I 
am not of the world. John xvii:i6. 

As thou hast sent me into the world, 
so have I sent them into the world. 
John xvii:i8. 



Christ is the standard for all our life; 
we know ourselves only as we know Him; 
we settle all doubtful questions by refer- 
ring to Him. One of the most import- 
ant questions is our relation to the world. 
We are making mistakes here on both 
sides, sometimes holding ourselves too 
much apart from it, sometimes entering 
too deeply into it; becoming monastic, and 
becoming worldly. In these two pass- 
ages Christ teaches us our right attitude. 
Separateness is put first; we must know 
that we are not of the world before we 
are ready to be sent into it; the divine side 
of life is before the human; see the com- 
mandments and the Lord's Prayer. 

I. The believer is not of the zi'orld, even 
as Christ was not. John xvii:i6. 

(a) Like Him, we have a birth not of 
the world. Luke 1:35 ; John i: 13. Christ, 
born of Mary, had a human nature; born 
of God, had a divine nature also. We 
are born of earthly parents, and so are 
human, but have another birth, from God, 
by which we are divine. II Pet. 1:4. 
This is as true and real a birth as the 
first one was. 

(b) We have a Father not of the world. 
John v:iS; Rom. viii : 1 5 . Christ was the 
Son of God; but we also are His Sons, 
and all that sonship implies is ours. Study 
the wonderful meaning of sonship all 
through the N. T., both as to Christ and 
to ourselves, and see the wonderful points 
of resemblance between Him and us. 

(c) We have an Experience not of the 
world. John iv:32; I Cor. ii:g, 10. Ex- 
periences are always in the line of the na- 
ture, and a divine nature will have divine 
experiences. Christ's joys and sorrows, 
longings, triumphs, hopes, were such as 
the world knows nothing of. So ours: see 
Paul's revelations of himself in his Epis- 
tles. 

(d) We have a power not of the woi Id, 
John xvi:32; Phil, iv.13. Christ's hu- 
man nature would have been crushed un- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



der His burdens, but for Divine support. 
We have the same supporter, and are 
borne up under the same burdens. 

(e) We have a home not cf the world. 
John xiv:3; II Cor. v.i-S. Christ was in 
exile here, had not where to lay his head. 
Real rest of heart could not be His, till at 
home with God. So with us; we have 
pleasant surroundings, fair world, dear 
friends, but the home feeling will not 
be ours, until we are in our eternal 
resting-place with our Father and Elder 
Brother. 

These are the great points of separate- 
ness from the world. They are not acci- 
dental, but essential; not arbitrary, but 
necessary, not to be assumed temporarily, 
and then laid aside, but always present 
with us; not outer badges, but inner real- 
ities; not diminishings from, but additions 
to ourselves, not based on our experience 
and purpose, but on his appointment, and 
accepted by faith, and that grow in us as 
we study Christ. 

Yet what shall be the practical result 
of this conscious separateness ? Hold 
ourselves aloof from the world, entering 
neither into its pleasures or its work? 
Surely not; whatever is right for any man, 
is right for a Christian. See how Christ 
entered into life, how close He came to 
men. He was called Son of Man. But 
Christ was in the world, because he was 
sent here. Study the w r ord "sent," in 
connection with Christ. Always there 
rested on Him the sense of a mission. And 
we are "sent" into the world, even as He 
was. A Christian is a "sent" man, an 
ambassador, on a mission. We are sent 
into joy, into sorrow, into home life and 
business, into conspicuousness and ob- 
scurity. Our warrant for being in any 
place, or accepting any experience, is that 
we are "sent" into it. And if sent, of 
course with an object. Our Master sends 
us on no objectless errands. 



II. — THE BELIEVER IS SENT INTO THE 
WORLD, EVEN AS CHRIST WAS. 

John xvii:i8. 

(a) To reveal the Father as He did. 
John i:i8; Eph. v.i, 2. God is un- 
known out of Christ. His holiness, love, 
mercy, readiness to hear prayer, all the 
wealth of His Fatherhood are understood 
only as we see Christ. We, in turn, are to 
be revelations of the unseen Christ. He 
is in heaven, and men are to understand 
Him by seeing us. "A Christian is the 
world's Bible." Therefore we are to pat- 
tern constantly after Christ. 

(b) To seek and save the lost as. He did. 
Luke xixuo. Matt. 28: 9. Christ was 
here to reach and rescue men. That 
was His uppermost thought in every 
interview with the unsaved; at a feast, in 
the receipt of customs, by the Sea of 
Galilee, at the well of Samaria. His 
miracles had the same end. In the great- 
ness of His love. He at last died to 
achieve this purpose. We are here to 
carry on this same work. We are the 
world's salt and light, its witnesses, 
preachers, ambassadors. Every station 
is a pulpit, every experience another 
text, every life a sermon. We are in the 
world because the world needs us, and 
when our work is done our Father will 
call us home. Never be without some 
souls for whose salvation you are defi- 
nitely laboring. Let every day deliver its 
message. 

Emphasize christlikeness in both as- 
pects. We cannot be too separate from 
the world, or get too near to it; cannot 
be too divine, or yet too human. Draw 
close to Christ in faith and self-surrender; 
draw close to your fellows in love and 
help. So your life will reproduce His. 

Rev. E. P. G. 

THE BELIEVER'S CALLING. 

It is of the utmost importance that we 
should know our true position as Be- 
lievers in Christ, have a distinct under- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



IOI 



standing and divine apprehension as to 
what our place really is before God. 

I. — OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVEL- 
OUS LIGHT. 

I Pet. u-.q. 

Darkness, Science, Reason, Educa- 
tion, etc., without the Holy Spirit is in 
spite of its vaunted intelligence and 
power, in spiritual darkness. 

Prov. iv:ig. Way of the Wicked. 

John i:5. In Darkness. 

Isa. ix:2. Walking in Darkness. 

Matt. iv::6. Sitting in Darkness. 

Ps. cxliii:3. Dwelling in Darkness. 

John iii:ig. Love Darkness. 

Matt. vi:23. Full of Darkness. 

Eph. v. 8. Darkness. 

Apart from Christ, the Light of the 
World, the past is dark, the present is 
darker, the future is outer darkness. Jude 
13. Oh, what a fearful leap into the dark. 

But mark, what- God hath done for us 
— what a change. 

See Eph. ii : £ 3. Far off — made nigh. 

Eph. ii : 1-5 . Dead — Quickened. 

John v:24. Death — Life. 

Col. i: 13. Children of Satan— Chil- 
dren of God. 

I Pet. ii:9. Acts xxvi:iS. In dark- 
ness. In light. 

See II Cor. iv:3, 4. 

If.— HOLY CALLING. 

II Tim. i.9. I Thess. i \' : 7 . . 

The call proceeds wholly from God, 
and claims us wholly/"*?;' God. 

Holy means Holy, and implies the sep- 
aration of Believers unto God. 

Sanctified. Set apart by the Blood of 
Christ. Heb. xiii: 1 2. See also Eph. v: 
25-27, and Col. i:2i, 22. 

III.- HEAVENLY CALLING. 

Heb. iii:i. 

Henvenly, because of the intimate rela- 
tions with God the Father and Jesus our 
exalted High Priest, who are in the 
Heavens. 



Heavenly, coming to us from Heaven 
and leading us to Heaven. 

Eph. ii:6, 19. Seated in Heavenly 
places. 

Phil. iii:20. For our citizenship is in 
Heaven! 

IV.— CALLED UNTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF 

HIS SON. 

I Cor. i:9. 

Fellowship. Partnership. Copartner- 
ship. Oneness of Interest. Union with 
Christ. Union with God the Father. 
John xvii:23. I John 1:3. 

Fellow heirs with Christ now. Rom. 
viii : 1 7. 

Joint heirs in Glory. John xvii:2i, 22. 
II Thess. ii: 14. I Pet. v:io. 

(a) God's Sovereignty in this great 
change. 

I Pet. ii:Q. II Tim. i:8-io. Heb. iii: 
[. I Cor. itg. See Judges vi:8, 9. 

The Grace of God. Eph. ii:8-io. Ps. 
cxviii:23. II Cor. iv:6, 7. 

(b) Our Responsibility. Corresponding 
to the Calling. 

1. Called into His marvelous light. 
Yes, true, blessedly true! But see Eph. 
v:7-n. Matt. v:i4-i6 (c. f. Johniii:i6 
and I John iv.n). I Pet. ii:i, 9, 11; 
Phil. ii:i2-i6. 

2. Called unto holiness. Yes! But see 

I Pet. i:i4, 16, 18, 19. Rom. xii:i, 2. 
Fruit unto holiness. Rom. vi:22. 

3. Called with an Heavenly Calling. 
Precious truth! But what of the obliga- 
tions? I John ii : 1 5 , 16. Col. iii:i, etc. 

4. Called into fellowship with His Son. 
Glorious relationship, but how tremendous 
the responsibility. See Amos iii 13, and 

II Cor. vi:i4. 

Another thought. Fellowship of his 
sufferings. Phil, iii: 10. 

Who are called? Luke v:32. 1 Cor. i: 
26, 29. 

Warning. Prov. 1:24. See also Eph. 
iv::, and II Pet: i:io, 11 . 



102 



NOTES FOR BIELE READINGS. 



TWENTY ALL THINGS FOR 
BELIEVERS. 

i. All things laid open, etc. Heb. iv: 
ij. 

2. He is before all things. Col. i : i g. 

3. He created all things. Col. i: 16. 

4. He fulfilled all things written con- 
cerning his suffering. Luke xviii:3i. 

5. All things given into His hand. 
John iii ; 35 ; xiii:3. 

6. He is now fulfilling all things. 
Eph. iv:io. Margin. 

7. All things are by Him, and for Him. 
I Cor. viii:6. Heb. ii:io. 

8. With Him we have all things. 
Rom. viii:32. 

9. Poor, yet having all things. II Cor. 
vi: o I Cor. iii:2i-23. 

10. All things loss for Christ. Phil. 
iii:8. 

11. Justified from all things. Acts 
xiii:39. 

I-:. All things new. II Cor. v:i7. 

13. All things possible with God. 
Matt. xix:26. 

14. All things possible with roan. 
Mark ix:22. 

15. Prayer. Matt. xxi:22. 

16. Can do all things through Him. 
Phil. iv:i3. 

17. Love. I Cor. xiii:7. 

18. All things work together for good. 
Rom. viii:28. 

19. Shall inherit all things. Rev. 
xxi:7. 

20. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, 
etc., and all these things will be added 
unto you. Matt, vi:33. 



HOLY SONSHIP AND UNION 
WITH CHRIST THE GROUND 
AND MOTIVE OF HOLI- 
NESS. 

The mould of the doctrine. 
Rom. vi:i; vii:6; vi:i7. 

THE SUM OF ALL THE EXHORTATIONS. 

Do what you did. 



Be what you are. 

(The aorist tense before God, the pres- 
ent tense for us by faith.) 

1. Justification is in order to Holiness. 
Sinners are justified, sons sanctified. 
Rom vi:22. Eph. ii:io. Heb. iii:i. 

2. The sons are the sanctified. John 
xvii:i7-i9. I Cor. i:2. Gal, iii:27, 28. 
I Cor. xii:i2. 

3. What we did once for all with 
Christ, let us ever do. 

(1.) Put off the old man. (Neg.) Eph. 
iv:22, 25. 

(2.) Put on the new man. (Pos,) Eph. 
iv:24. 

1. (a) Ye were crucified; be crucified. 
Rom. vi:6. Gal. ii:2o; v:24; vi:i4. 

b. Ye died, be dead. Col. iii : 3, 5. 

c. Ye were buried; be buried. Rom. 
vi:4. Col. ii:i2. 

2. (a) Ye were made alive; be alive. 
Rom. vi:ii. Eph. ii.5. Col. iii. 3. 

(b) Ye were raised, be risen. Rom. vi: 
4. Col. iii:i, 2. 

(c) Ye were seated; be seated and live 
as in heaven. Eph. ii:4-6. 

(d) Ye were glorified ; live as the glori- 
fied, as sons rejoicing in hope of the 
glory. Rom. viii:3o; v:5. 

Sum in I Cor. v:7, 8. Rom. viii:i2, 

15, 17- 

Rev. W. J. Erdman. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S HIDING PLACE 

1. Where and how to get hidden. Ps. 
cxliii:9. 

2. With whom. Ps. xxxii:7. 

3. The Word in us. Ps. cxix:n. 

4. In the Word. Ps. cxix:ii4. 

5. Under His wings. Ps. xvii:8. 

6. The God man. Isa. xxxii:2. 

7. With Christ in God. Col. i i i : 3 . 



BELIEVER'S PATH IN OLD 
TESTAMENT. 



1. Path of obedience. 
Deut xiii:4. 



After God. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE' READINGS. 



■°3 



2. Path of Holiness. Before God. 
Gen. xvii:! . 

3. Path of Fellowship. With God. 
Gen, v:22. 



"EVEN AS HE." 

1. In separation from the world. John 
xvii:i6. I John iii:i. 

2. In purity of heart and life. I John 
iii : 3. Matt. v:S. I Pet. KI3-16. John 
xvii:i7-i9. 

3. In daily walk and conversation. I 
John ii:6; iii:~. I Pet. ii:2i. II Cor. 
iii:lS. 



CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCE. 

I Pet. i:i4. 

1. Obedience of Faith. Heb. xi:6. 
Rom. xvi:26. 

2. Obedience of Will. II Cor. x:5. 

3. Obedience of Motive. I Cor. x:3i. 
Col. iii:i7. I Pet. iv:n. 

FOLLOWING CHRIST. 
John xxi.ig. 

" He hath left us an example that we 
should follow in His steps." 

1. In Faith. Heb. xii:2. 

2. In Love Eph. v:2. 

3. In Holiness. I John iii : 3 - 

4. In Long suffering. Heb. xii:3. 

5. In Forgiveness. Col. iii: 1 3. Eph. 
iv:32. 

, 6. In Suffering. I Pet. ii:2l. 

7. In Unselfishness. Rom. xv:2, 3. 

8. In Humility. Phil. ii:5-8. 

9. In Service. John xvii:i8. Ps, ci:6. 
John xiv:i2, f. c. 

10. In Whole Life. I John ii:6. 

11. In Obedience. John viii:2g; xxi: 
19, 22. Ps. xl:7, 8. Phil. ii:8. Heb. 
v:8. Matt. vii:2l. 

12. In Sacrifice. Luke xiv.25-33. 
Matt, iv: 19, 22; x:34-39- Luke ix: 57-62. 

13. In Rejection. Isa. liii : 3. John 
i ; 1 1 ; xv:25; xvii:i4; xv:20, 18; I John 
iii: 1 3. 



14. In Honor. Phil. ii:g- John xii:26; 
xvii:24. II Cor. iii:i8. Col. iii : 3. Rev. 
vii:g-i7. 

To follow Christ there must be: For- 
saking all, denying self, forsaking of sin, 
etc. See Matt. xix:2i. Luke ix: 57-^2; 
v.i-11; ix:23, Phil. iii:4, etc. Gal. ii: 
2 '. II Tim. ii : 19. Eph. iv:22. Col. 
iii:8, 9. II Cor. vi;i7. See also John 
xii:26, and Acts xxvii.23. 

Blessings to those who follow Christ. 
John viii:i2. Ps. xxiii. Hosea vi:3. 



THE CHRISTIAN. 
Like His Lord and Saviour. 

1. In relation to this world. John 
xvii:i6; I John iv:i7; ii : 1 5 , 16. 

2. In purity of life. I John iii : 3 
Matt. v:8. 

3. In daily walk and conversation. I 
John ii:6. I Pet. ii:2i, 23. John xiii: 1 5. 



BEFORE GOD. 

Naturally we are all guilty, condemned 
before God. Rom. iii: ig. 

Who then, is able to stand before Me? 
Job xlkio 

(Heb. iv:i3. R. V. See verse 12.) 

Eph. i:4. Ps. Ivi:i3 Standing in 
Christ before God. Now the practical 
work before God. 

1. In Love. Eph. i:iv. I John iii: 
1^-19. 

2. In Life. Rom. xiv:22. Jas. L27. 
Beware of perfection in theory with im- 
perfection in practice. Gen. xvii:i. 

3. In Worship. I Chron. xvi:29. Mi- 
cah vi:6-8. 

4. In Prayer. Ps. lxii:8. II Kings 
xix:i4-22. Dan. ix:i3. Deut. ix:i8. 

5. In Praise. Ps. lxviii.4; xcv:i, 2. 

6. In Preaching or Testimony. II Cor. 
xii: 19; v:i2. I Thess. ii : 1-1 3. 

7. In Trials. Job xiii: 15, 16. Ps. 
cxlii : T-5 . Luke i : 74, 7:. 

Rev. iii:i-6. I John ii:28. I Thess. 
iii:i2-, 13. 



io4 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Some examples: 

Noah. Gen. vii:i. 

Abraham. Gen. xvihi: xxiv:4o; xlviii: 

15. 

Moses. Ps. cvi:23. Jer xvi. 
Samuel. Jer. xv;i. 

David. I Kings ix.4. I Sam. xvi:4, 
7. Acts vii:45. 46. 

Hezekiah. II Chron. xxix:2. 

Elijah. I Kings xvii:i; xviii: 1 5. 

Elisha. II Kings iii:i4; v:i6, 

Daniel, vino, 11. 

Zacharias and Elizabeth. Luke i:6. 

Paul. Acts xxiii.i. 

See I Cor. i:29, 30. 



LIVING TO PLEASE GOD. 
Heb. xi.5. 

Approved unto God. II Tim. ii: 1 5 . 
1. Faith. Heb. xi:6. 
•J. Works. Heb. xiii: 16. (See v. 21.) 
;\. Liberality. Phil, iv.15, 18. 
4. Praise. Ps. lxix:30, 31. 
kj. Separation from the World. II 
Tim. ii:4. I Thess. iv:i-4. 

6. Holy Living (positive. 1 . Ps. Ii: 19, c. 
f. Rom. viii:8-io. 

7. Fidelity. I Thess. ii:4. Eph. vi:6. 
G»J. i:io. I Cor. i:2l. Acts iv:i8-20. 
Je r . xx:g. 

Reward — 

\. Prov. xvi:7. Rom. viii:3i. 

•,!. Isa. lvi:4, 5 

Rom. xii:i, 2. 



SERVANTS OF GOD. 

"Paul a servant of Jesus Christ." 
Rom. i:i. 

' ; Whose I am, and whom I serve." Acts 
xxvii:23. 

Being a servant, is the Lord's free 
man." I Cor. vii:22, 23. 

First of all, whose servant are you? Do 
yo>. say, "I don't know," "I'm not sure," 
"How can I tell?" Well, listen, hearken, 
tak<: heed to what God says: "No man 
cai: serve two masters." -Matt. vi:24. 



There are only two masters — God and 
Satan. Who is your master? One must 
be — the two cannot be. "Ye cannot serve 
God and Mammon." Matt. vi:24. 

It is a question of obedience, for "His 
servants ye are whom ye obey." Rom. 
vi:i6. 

So before you go any further settle this 
one important question. 

WHOM AM I SERVING? 

May you be able to say with the Psalm- 
ist, "O Lord, truly I am Thy servant, I 
am Thy servant." Ps! cxvi:i6. 

Now let us see what kind of service 
the Lord requires : 

1. Serve the Lord with a perfect heart. 
I Chron. xxviiiio,. 

2. Serve the Lord with all thine heart. 
Deut x:i2. 

3. Serve the Lord without fear. Luke 

i:74. 

4. Serve the Lord in holiness. Luke i: 

75- 

5. Serve the Lord with a willing mind. 
I Chron. xxviii.9. 

6. Serve the Lord faithfully. Dan. vi; 
20; c. f. i:8; vi:4, 5, 10; x:ii, 12. 

7. Serve the Lord with a pure con- 
science. II Tim. i:3. 

8. Serve the Lord acceptably, with rev- 
erence. Heb. xii:28. 

9. Serve the Lord with all humility. 
Acts xx:i9. 

10. Serve the Lord with gladness. Ps. 
c:2. 

11. Serve the Lord all the days of thy 
life. Luke i:75. 

12. Serve the Lord in hope of His re- 
turn. Luke xix:i3. Matt. xxiv:46, 47. 

Our Model. Phil. ii;5-8. John xiii: 

13-17- 

Our Reward. "Well done, good and 
faithful servant — enter thou into the joy 
of thy Lord." Matt. xxv:2i. 



MY FRIENDS. 
John xv:i5- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



°5 



I, — Conditions of Friendship. 

i. Separation from evil. 

Friend of world, enemy of God. James 
iv:4. 

He that is not with Me is against Me. 
Matt. xii:3C 

2. Faith- 
Faithful Abraham, father of faithful, 

friend of God. Jas. ii ; ^ 3 . 

Without faith it is impossible to please 
God. Heb. xi:6. 

3. Love — 

A friend loveth at all times. Prov. xvii: 
17, f. c 

4. Obedience — 

If ye love me, ye will keep my com- 
mandments. John xiv.15 R. V. 

Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do 
not the things which I say. Luke vi 146. 

Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever 
I command you. John xv:i4. 

II. — A dva « tages . 

Gen. xviii:i7. Ex. xxxiii:tr. Ps. xxv: 
14. John xv:i5. 

Communion. Fellowship. Help. 

Guidance. Comfort. Knowledge, 
Power. 



SECRET OF PROSPERITY. 

II Kings xviii: t-S. 

1. Got rid of the idols, v. 4. 

2. Trusted in God v. 5. 

3. Cla 7 >e to the Lord, v. 6. 

4. Kept folio-wing the Lord, v. 6. 

5. Obeyed the Lord, v. 6. 

6. Rebelled against the enemy, v. 7, 

7. Lord was with Him, v. 7. 
Smote His enemies. 



FOUR BIBLE PEARLS. 

1. -Precept. Luke xix:i3. 

2. Prayer. Ps. cxliii:io. 

3. Promise. Heb. xiii:5. 

4. Praise. Eph. iii:2i. 



THREE DEATHS TO THE 
BELIEYERS. 

Death to Sin. Rom. vin. 



2. Death to Law. Gal. ii:ig. 

3. Death to World. Col. ii:2o. 

GLEANINGS. 

I. — OUR CALLING. 

I Cor. i:i, 2, 9. 

Apostleship. Saintship. Fellowship. 

II. — OUR STANDING. 

I Cor. vi:ii, 13, 19, 20. 

1 . Ye are washed. 

2. Ye are sanctified. 

3. Ye are justified. 

4. Ye are member of The Christ. 

5. Ye are not your own. 

6. Ye are bought with a price. 

7. Ye are God's. 

III. — OUR RESPONSIBILITY. 

I Cor. v:6; vi.2, 3, 9, 15, 16, 19. 

Know ye not. Leaven — Beware. 

Know ye not. Judge the world. 

Know ye not. Be holy. 

Know ye not. Abide in Him. 

■Know ye not No compromise. 

Know ye not. Temples of God. 

WHAT JESUS CALLS HIS DISCI- 
PLES IN THE GOSPEL BY 

JOHN. 

Servants. John xii:26. 
Disciples. John xiii:35. 
Friends. John xv:i4. 
Brethren. Johnxx:i7. 
Children. John xxi:5. 
See Rom. vi 16-23. Ps. xxv:5; lxii : 5. 
See II Tim. iii : 3-7- Heb, v:i2. Ps. 
xxxii:S. Jas. \'-$. Matt. xi:2g. 
See Jas. ii:23. Isa. xli.S. 
See Matt. xii:50. Heb. ii:ii, 17. 
See Gal. iii:26; iv:i-8. 



GLEANINGS IN ROMANS 
1. 
Free — From Righteousness, vi:2o. 
11. 

1. Free — Gift. v:i5-i7. 

2. Free— Justification. iii:24. 



io6 



NOTES FOR EIBLE READINGS. 



3. Free — From Sin. vi:i8, 22. 

4. Free — From the Law of sin and 
death, viii.12. 

5. Free — All things given. viii:32. 

6. Free — Glorious liberty of children of 
God. viii:2i. 

"There is therefore now no condemna- 
tion to them that are in Christ Jesus." 
viii: . 

l 'Oh, to grace how great a debtor!" 

THE WILL OF GOD IN EVERY- 
DAY GUIDANCE. 

God never intends that His people should 
be in uncertainty as to His will. Eph. i:<3. 
"Yes," you say. "But have we not to 
walk by faith ?" Yes, but faith in a God 
who just loves to take the weakest child 
of His by the hand and guide. 
I. — HOW is god's will made known. 

(1) By the Holy Spirit. 

(2) By the word of God. 

(3) By special providences. 

1 . The Holy Spirit. 

He being God, and God in us, if our 
self-will is gone, and He has the govern- 
ment, He will guide according to the good 
pleasure of His will. 

And by the Word. It is only as He 
teaches, that we are profited. 

And by His Special Providences. It is 
only as He works in these providences that 
we are led aright and benefited. 

Some instances of direct guidance of 
the Holy Spirit. Acts viii:2g; Acts xiii: 
2; Acts xvi:6 7. 

2. The Word of God. 

Is it not marvelous how this precious 
word of our loving God covers all circum- 
stances in life ? What about the thirty- 
two thousand promises ? See Ps. cxix:24, 
104, 130. 

3. Special Pi ovidence. 

Whenever His word is sufficient, it will 
be in vain that we look for other revela- 
tion for Guidance, but see Acts x:o, etc. 
See verses 19 and 30. Acts xvi.9: Acts 



xviii:g. Compare Acts xviii-1-3 with xviii: 
24-28. 

II. — CONDITIONS BY WHICH WE MAY HAVE 

THE CONTINUAL REALIZATION OF THE 

DIVINE GUIDANCE. 

1. Being Filled with God. See Eph. 
v:i7, 18. 

The Spirit's work is to teach and guide. 
John xiv:26; xvi:i3;I Cor viii:8-n; Rom. 
viii:26, 27. 

Our will once and forever under the 
government of the Holy Spirit. Let us 
never forget that God worketh in us, and 
what for. Phil. ii:i3. 

2. Constant meditation on the Word of 
God. 

Ps. cxix::4, 97-1C4, 105, 130, 165; Josh. 
i:S. 

3. Close abiding intercourse with the 
Lord Himself. 

John viii: 2; x:3, 4, 27; xv:7, 15. But 
notice again. 

4. Obedience. John xv:i4; vii: 17. R. 
V. Compare John xiv:2i. 

5. Absence of all Sin. 

"What fellowship hath light with dark- 
ness ?" 

" Can two walk together except they be 
agreed ?" 

" If I regard iniquity in my heart, the 
Lord will not hear me." 

Ezek. xiv:3; xx:i-3; Josh. vii:8, 10-13. 

Unconfessed Sin means unforgiven Sin, 
and unforgiven Sin means separation from 
God, and a separation from God, means 
darkness, no communion, and therefore 
no guidance. 

6. Holiness of heart and positive good 
living. 

Eph. v:8-io; II Pet. 1:3-9; Isa - lviii:5- 
11. 

7. A holy fear toward the Lord. 
Ps. xxv:i2-i4. 

The Lord does not tell his secrets to 
every one. 

8. Delight in the Loid. Ps. xxxvii:4. 
Mark the order here. Trust, Obey, 

Delight. Compare Ps. xl:8; John iv:34. 



NOTES FOX BIBLE READINGS. 



107 



9. Meekness. Ps.xxv.g. 

10. Babes. Not wise in their own eyes. 
Matt. xi:25, 26. 

11. Blind. Isa. xlii:i6. 

12. Absolute Dependence. 
Prov. iii:5, 6; Ps. xxxvii:5, 6. 

13. Unwavering Faith. Jas. 1:5-7. 

14. Patience. Jas. 1:3, 4; Ps. xxxvii:7; 
Ps. xxxiiS. 

See connection with verse 7; Hab. ii:i- 
4; Heb. x:36 

15. Practical everyday self-denial for 
the good of others. 

Isa. lviikio, 11. Continually. See Ps. 
cxxi. 

16. Absolute surrender of ALL to the 
Lord. 

No reserve. No compromises. All or 
none. 

" Forsake all and Follow Me." The 
will is in the ail. If we are to have much 
of God, He must have much of us. Christ 
our all and in all. 

Christ who is our Life. 

(Not only my Saviour) 

(Not only my Standing) 

(Not only my Example) 

(But my Life.) 

Christ liveth in me. 

Deny Himself. 

See Gal. ii:20. " Yet not I." 

I Cor. xv:io. " Yet not I." 

Follow Me. 

Bethlehem — Humiliation. Nazareth — 
The despised Nazarene. Gethsemane. 
" Thy will be done." Calvary, Death ! 
R 



om. xu: r, 2. 



TRUST. 
1. Whom not to Trust. 
(i). Self. See II Cor \\q\ Prov. xxviii: 
26; Phil. iii:3. 

(2) Good works. Gal. ii:i6; Eph. ii:g. 

(3) Riches. I Tim. vi:i7; Luke xii:20, 
21 ; Prov. xi:23. 

(4) World. Isa. xxxi:i; Luke xv:i4-i6. 

(5) Man. Ps. cxlvi:3; Isa. ii:22; Jer. 
xvii:5. 



(6) Hypocrisy. Job viii: 13-1 5 ; xxvii: 
8-10. 

(7) The Heart Prov. xxviii:26; Jer. 
xvii:g. 

2. Whom to Trust. Isa. xxvi:4; Ps. 
xcin-4; Mark xi::2; I John v:<5-i3. 

The Gospel is not something to do, 
but something to believe. Am I not to 
do my best ? 

Yes. Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Surrender everything to Him. We can 
never learn the strength of the Everlast- 
ing Arms until we let go every other prop, 
and have nothing to cling to but Jesus 
Christ. 

Well. I do trust, but don't feel. Don't 
feel what ? You trust, but what do you 
trust ? His never-failing Word, or your 
feeling ? 

See Dan. vi 116-23; "1:23, 28; II Tim. 
i: 12 ; Ps. xxxi:i-5; xxxvik.s. 

3. Whento Trust. Ps. lxii: 8 ; lvi:3, 4; 
Mark v:36; Isa. l:io; Heb. iii : r 7, 19. 
See Matt. viii:23-26. 

God's Promises exceeding Great and 
Precious, are assure as God Himself. 
Every Promise rests upon seven pillars. 

(1) God's Purpose which will not suffer 
Him to forget. 

(2) God's Holiness, which will not suf- 
fer Him to deceive. 

(3) God's Truth, which will not suffer 
Him to change. 

(4) God's Grace, which delights to 
fulfill. 

(5) God's Mercy, which is everlasting. 

(6) God's Love, which never fails. 

(7) God's Power, which enables Him to 
accomplish. 

4. How to Trust. Prov. iii : 5 ; Isa. xii: 
2; Rom. x:io; Heb. xi:6; Ps. v:ii, 12; 
Ps. xxxiv:S. 

Don't take Delay for Denial. Keep at 
it, and let your trust be without fear. 
Trust in a Dependent spirit. 
Trust in a Childlike spirit. 
Trust in a Patient spirit. 



io8 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Trust in an Expectant spirit. 
Trust in a Joyful spirit. 
Let your works prove that you are trust- 
ing. Let go the World. 

5. Results of Trusting God. Jer. xvii: 
7, 8. Prov. xvi:2o; Luke xviii:i3, 14; 
Ps. cxxv:i; Ps. xxxvii:3-6; Ps. xxxiv:8-22; 
Prov. xxix:25; Rom. viii:i, 25, etc. Isa. 
Ivii:i2, 13; Ps. cxliii:8; Ps. xxviii:7; Ps. 
v:ii, 12; John v:24; Eph. i:i2-i4; Rom. 
v:i-3;Dan. vi:i6-24; Dan. iii:23-28; Matt. 
vii:24, 25; Rev. vii: 13-17. 

6. Results of Trusting Man. Jer. 
xvii: 5. 6; Job viii: 13-16; xxvii:8; Isa. xxx: 
i, 2; Matt. vii:26, 27; Rev. xxi:S. 



"GOD'S PEOPLE," AND THEIR 
SOURCE OF STRENGTH. 

Ps. xxix:ii. 

1 . His People. The Lord has a people 
specially known as His People. 

(1) The Lord hath visited and redeemed 
His people. Luke i:68. 

(2) Chosen to be His Peculiar people. 
Deut. xxvi: 8. 

(3) The Lord's portion is His people. 
Deut. xxxii:g. 

(4) The Lord taketh pleasure in His 
people. Ps. cxlix:4. 

(5) The Lord loves His people. II 
Chron. ii:ii. 

(6) Jesus, the Lord, shall save His peo- 
ple. Matt 1,21. 

(7) They shall be His people, and God 
Himself shall be with them, and be their 
God. Rev. xxi:3. 

We are His people. Ps. c:3. Who? 
Every believing child. God is no re- 
specter of persons. 

2. God designs that His People should 
be a Mighty People. 

All His own strength is engaged in our 
behalf. 

(1) The Lord giveth strength to His 
people. Ps. xxix: 1 1. 

(2) The Lord giveth Power to His peo- 
ple. Ps. xviii:35. 



(3) The Lord makes us temples for His 
own indwelling. II Cor. vi:i6. 

(4) The Lord will not forsake His peo- 
ple. I Sam. xii:22. 

(5) The Lord delivers His people. 
Ezek. xiii:2i. 

(6) The Lord giveth His people knowl- 
edge of salvation, Lukei:77. 

(7) The Lord is the hope of His peo 
pie. Joel iii:i6. 

How to get the strength. Take it Isa. 
xxvii:5; xl:3l. 

See Isa. xl:2g, 31; xxx: 15; xxvi:4 Job 
xxiii:6; Neh. viii:io; Acts i:8; II Cor. 
xii:g; Col. i:n; Eph. vi:io; Heb. xii:i- .. 
Rom. v-vi. 

Some testimony. David. Ps. xviii:i; 
xx vii: 1 ; xliii:2; lxii:7; lxxiii:26. Isaiah. 
Isa. xii:2;xlv:24. Jeremiah. Jer. xvi:ig. 
Habakkuk. Hab. iii:i9. His exceeding 
great and precious promises. Take one. 
Isa. xli:io. 



QUICKENING OF SPIRITUAL 
LIFE. 

Ps. cxix. See Ps, Ixxx:i8; Ps. lxxxv:6; 
John Xyio. 

(1) Ps. cxix. According to Thy word, 
Verses 9, 25, 28, 41, 58, 65, 76, 107, 154, 
169, 170. See verse 105. 

(2) In Thy righteousness. Verse 40. 
See Rom. viii:34; I Tim. iv:7. 

(3) In Thy way. Verse 37. Walking 
with God. Way of holiness. See Ps. 
xxxii:8. 

(4) After Thy loving kindness. Verse 
88. His loving kindness, oh how great. 
What of sin ? See Eph. iii: 18-21. 

(5) According to judgment. Verse 149. 
Limping Jacob. 

Loathsome Job. 
Discouraged Elijah. 
Weeping Jeremiah. 
Imperfect David. 
Heart-broken Peter. 
Persecuting Saul. 
Persecuted Paul. 



NOTES FOR EIBLE READINGS. 



109 



What crushing ? But oh, how it brought 
out the confession of Christ. 

According to Thy name. See Ps. cxliii 
11. 



" WHAT ISA CHRISTIAN?" 

Acts xi:26. See Acts xxiv:5. 
A Nexu Creation. II Cor. v:i7; Rom. 
viii : 1 . 

In Faith. A believer. He has re- 
ceived the gift of faith. John v:24; I 
John v:io, 13; Johniii:i3; Acts xiii:3g; 
Rom. iii:28; iv:i6; v:i. 

In Knowledge. A Disciple. He has 
knowledge. (1) Of himself. (2) Of God 
in Christ. John viii:3i; Col. i:g, 10; II 
Pet. iii:i7, 18; Phil, hi: 10; iv:ii; Heb v: 
8; John viii 132. 

In Character. A Saint. He has a 
character divine. Rom. i:7; I Cor. i:2; 
II Tim. i.9; I Pet. i-13, 16; I Thess. iv:7; 
I Pet. ii:o; Heb. xii:i4. 

In Influence. A Light. He has an 
influence for good. Matt. v:i4; Eph. v: 
8, etc. Phil, ii : 1 5, 16. 

In Conflict. A Soldier. 

II Tim. ii.3, 4; Eph. vi:i3-i8; Rom. 
viii:37; Rev. iii:2i; I John v:4, 5; Rev. 
xii : 1 1 . 

In Communion. A Friend. Walking 
with God. 

John xv:i5; James xi'-iy, John xv:i4; 
John xiii:23; I John i;2-4. 

In Progress. A Pilgrim. Progression 
heavenward. 

Heb. xi:i3; I Pet. ii:ii; Phil. iii:20. 
See Eph. ii:6, 19. » 

In Relationship. A Child. Related 
to God. Rom. viii: 14-16; Gal. iv.4-7; 
John i:i2; Gal. iii:26; I Johniii:i; John 
xx:i7; Luke xr.13. Read Matt. vi. 

In expectation. An heir. Bright and 
glorious prospect. Rom. viii: 17. I Pet. i: 
3-5. Col. iii:4. I John iii:2. Acts i:ii. 
Johnxiv::-3. See Luke xix:i3. Mark 
xiii:32, 37. I Thess. iv:i 
xxii:7, 12, 20. Ps. xvii:i5. 



A REVIVAL. 

II Chron xv:S, etc. 

1. Get rid of Sin. v 8. 

If we regard iniquity in our heart the 
Lord will not hear us. Isa. l:ii; lix.i, 2, 
3. Josh. vii:i2, 13. Ps. li:6, 13.. 

2. Self ' -sac i flee, v. 11. 

Luke xiv:33. Phil. iii:7, 3. Mai. iii:6- 
10. 

3. Covenant Consecration, v. 12. 
I Cor. vi:i9, 20. Rom. xii : 1 , 2. 

4. It must be real. vs. 12 and 15. 

No outward show. Heart work. No 
outward measures. A revival with deep 
humility and heart work. Isa lvii: 1 5 . 

Dead in earnest. See v. 13. 

5. Yo fear of Man. v. 14. 

Not ashamed of the Gospel. Rom. i: 
16. I Tim. i. Ps. xl:2, 3. 

6. God found and manifestly with 
them. v. 15. 

7. Great ingatheiing of the Saved, v. 9. 

8. They had rest round about, v. 15. 



CONDITIONS OF S0NSH1P. 

1. Sons hip. 

Gal. iii:26. John i:i2. 

Compare Gal. iv:6 and Rom. viii: 14- 
16. 

Receive Christ, then let him have con- 
trol. 

Lead by the Spirit. See Heb. xii:5, 8. 

2. Discipleship. 

Luke xiv.27, 33, John xv.S. 
Forsake ail old. Produce, manifest, 
all new 

3. Friendship. 
John xv:i5; xv:i4. 

Obey? To obey is better than sacrifice. 

4. Felloii'ship. 

I Cor. i:9. I John i: 3; I John i:7. 
W T alk before God. 
Walk after God. 
Walk with God. 
Ail essential to true Sonship. 
Who had more or truer friendship 
than John? Leaning on His bosom. 



I 10 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



FREE. 

1. The Fact. 

John viii:36. Gal. v.i. 

Christ the great Emancipator and Lib- 
erator. 

It is not in man to liberate His fellow. 
It is the mission of Christ. I John iii:8. 

2. Free from present Condemnation. 
Rom. x:4; viii-i. Gal. iii: 13 ; ii: 19. 

Rom: viy 

Until by faitn we take our place in 
union with Christ, we are under condem- 
nation and the worst kind of bondage. 

All freedom has its source in Christ. 

3. Free from future Judgment and 
Wrath. 

John v 24. I Thess. i:io. Rom. v.9. 
Redemption price paid, and justice sat- 
isfied. 

4. Free from the power of Sin. 
Gal. i:4. 

That He might take us for Himself 
out of the present evil age. (Rotherham.) 
See John xvii:i5. 

Free from the power of sin as Master. 
Rom. vi:i8, 22; vi:i4; viii:2. 

5. Free from the presence of Sin. 
Can a man be entirely emancipated? 

Free indeed. This was the aim of Christ's 
redemption. Titus ii : 14. I John i:7; 
iv:i7. 

6. Free from the fear of Death. 

Ps. Ivi:i3. Heb. ii:i4, 15. Rom. v:2i. 
Ps xxiii:4. 

Free because death has lost its sting. 
I Cor. xv:54. 

Free because of the blessed hope. I 
Pet. i:3- Job. xix:25, 26. 

7. Free from all Anxiety. 

I Pet. v:7. Phil. iv:6, 7. Matt, vi: 
25-34- 

Free indeed. John viii:36. 



The Son who has the right power and 
will. Connection. Gal. iv:4, 7. 

Is He free? Then so are we. 

How to maintain this glorious Liberty. 

1. Knowledge of the truth. Truth and 
liberty are inseparable. 

We are only free as we move in har- 
mony with the will of God. John xvii: 
17; viii:32; xi:44. 

Know, i. e., understand. Luke xxiv: 
45. John xvi.13. II Cor. iii: 17. 

Free in fact? Are we free in experi- 
ence? If not, it is simply because we do 
not realize and understand the truth. See 
Hos. xiin 14. Ps. cxxiv.7. 

Hozv manifested. 

Free justification in Christ before God. 

Free sanctification. He in us before the 
world 

"Live out the life of liberty." 

Obedience to the truth. Rom. vi:i6, 22. 

Love. 

Let us never forget the price of our lib- 
erty — the servitude of Christ. Phil, ii : 7, 
8. I Pet. i : 1 8 , 19. 

See II Cor. x:3, 5. 

See Rom. vi:i8, 22. Note the order. 

1. Free from sin. Servants of right- 
eousness. No middle ground. 

2. No service to or for God until free 
from sin. 

3. It must be willing and cheerful 
service. 

4. The character. Servants of Right- 
eousness, [ness. 

5. The fruitfulness. Fruit unto holi- 

6. Servants (slaves) to God — God's 
property. 

I Cor. vi: 9, :o; vii:22, 2?. 

Lesson. Stand fast, therefore, in the 
liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 
Gal. v:i. 



PAST. 
1. Lost. Isa. liii:6. 
3. Sinner. Rom. v:8; 
iii:23. £L_p. 

3. Darkness. Eph. v. 8; 



PRESENT. 

Saved. Eph. ii ; 5 , 8. II 
Tim. 1:9. 

Saint. Eph. i:i; ii: 19. 
Rom. i:7. I Cor. i;2. 



FUTURE. 

We shall be changed. I 
Cor. xv:5i, 52, 53, 54. Rom. 
viii:23. 

We shall put on immor- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I I I 



4. Dead. Eph. ii:i. Ro. 
v:i2. 

5. Far off. Eph. 11:13 
f. c. 

6. Enemy. Rom. v:io; 
viii:7. 

7. Condemned. John 
iii: 18. 

8: Without God. Eph. 
ii:i2. Ps. xiv:i. 

9. Without Hope. Eph. 
ii:i2. 

10. Child of Satan. Eph. 
ii:2, 3. John viii.44. Matt. 
xiii:38. 

Poor, having nothing but 
sin. Rev. iii:i8. John iii: 
27- 



Light. II Cor. iv : 6. 
[John ix:l5. 

Life. II Cor. v:i7. Eph. 
|ii:i, 5. I John v:i2. John 
v:2 4 . 

Nigh. Eph. ii:i3, 18. 
Rom. v.2. Heb. x.19. 

Friend. Johnxv:i4, 15. 

Justified. I Cor. vi:ii. 
Rom. v:i; viii:i. 

With God. Eph. ii:22. 
II Cor. vi.17. I Pet. ii:5. 

Good Hope. II Thess 
ii.16. Heb. vi:i8. 19. 

Child of God. John i:i2. 
Gal. iv:5. Rom. viii: 14, 16. 
I John iii. 1. 

Rich, having all things. 
Col. ii:20. I John iv:l7. 
Rom. viii: 1 7. II Cor.vi:io. 

By the Grace of God I 
am what I am. 



tality. I Cor. xv: — . Rom. 
viii: 19. 

We shall be manifested 
with Christ. Col. iii 14. 

We shall be glorified 
with Christ. Rom. viii: iS. 

We shall be ' on the 
Throne with Christ. II 
Tim. ii:i2. Matt. xix:28. 
Luke xxii:28-30. Rev. iii 4. 

We shall be on the Judg- 
ment Seat with Christ. I 
Cor. i:2, 3. Dan. vii.:2, 
Jude 14, 15. 

We shall participate in 
the Marriage with Christ. 
I Rev. xix.7-9. Matt. xxv. 

We shall be forever with 
Christ. John xvii:24. Ps. 
1:3, 6. I Thess. iv:i6, 17. 

We shall be like Christ. 
Job xix;26. I John iiii, 
2. Ps. xviitis. 



FORGIVENESS. 
Matt, xviii. 

1. Unforgiving Spirit. Proof positive 
that the man is not a Christian. I John 
ii:9, 11; iii:i4, 15; iv:2o. 21. 

2. A forgiving spirit the mark of a 
Christian. Col. iii:7, 8, 12, 13. 

3. An unforgiving spirit prevents our 
offering acceptable worship to God. 
Matt. V23, 24. Mark xi 24, 25. I Tim. 
ii:8. 

4. An unforgiving spirit prevents us 
from receiving God's forgiveness. Matt. 
xviii:35, Mark xi.26. Matt. vi:i2, 14, 
15- 

The only part of this model prayer that 
the Saviour makes any comment on. J as. 
ii : 1 3. Matt. v;7. 

God's forgiveness is to be the measure 
and manner of our forgiveness. 

1. Ready. Ps. lxxxvi:5. 

2. Cheerfully- Micah vii:i8. 

3. Fully. Isa. lv.7. Luke xv:2o. 

4. Forgetting. Heb. x.17. 



See Eph. iv.32. Col. iii: 12-16. Mark 
ii:7. Dan. ix:9. Matt. ix:6. I John vg; 
ii:i. Ps. ciii:3, S, 12. 



CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. 
Gal. iv:i- 6. 

Religious Slaves. Isa. i:io, 20. Matt. 
xxiii:i3, 15, 27, 33. Matt. xvi:6; v;2o. 
Christian Liberty. 

1. When originated, v. 4. 

2. What of fulness of time. Gen.iii:i5. 

3. Divinity of Christ, v. 4. 

4. Humanity of Christ, v. 4. 

5. What relation to the law, v. 4. 

6. What object of His coming, v. 5. 
Redeemed sons of God. I Pet. iii. 18. 

Gal. iii : 1 3. 

7. What the effect of the Law. Gal. 
iii. 24.. 25. 

8. What of the result, v. 6. 
Is it present? I John iii: 1 . 

What proof? IJohnv:io. Rom. viii:i6. 
How? Gal. iii:26. John i.12, 13; iii; 
5, -6. John viii:32, 36. 



112 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Is it secure? John xx:i7. Eph. i: 13. 
II Cor. i:22. Eph. iv:30 

Is this a pledge of anything more? 
Eph. i:7. Rom. viii: 1 7. I John iii:i, 2 

Folly of going back, vs. 4, 9. 

Sin of going back, vs. 4, 9. 

What lessons, vs. 4, 11, 16. 



ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH. 
I. Service. 

1. Active effort. Luke xix:i3. 

2. Witnessing zeal. Titus iii'.ii, 14. 

3. Saving souls. I Thess. hi: 12, 13. 
Heb. x:24, 25. 

4. Taking Heed to the Word. II Pet. 
i:i 9 . 

5. Constant watchfulness. Mark xiii: 
33-37. I Thess. v:5, 6. 

6. Patient waiting. Luke xii:33, 36. 
I Cor. i:7. II Thess. iii : 5 . 

II. Holy living . 

As He take your place with Him. I 
John iii:3. I Thess. v:23. II Pet. iii:ii. 

III. Looking for the Reward. 

Matt. xvi:27. Rev. xxii:i2; iii:ii, 12, 
21. I John iii:i, 2. 
Four different Saints: 
Paul. Patient waiting. II Thess. iii 15. 
Peter. Hastening unto. II Pet. iii: 1 2. 
James. Stablished hearts. Jas. v:8. 
John. Abiding in Him. I John ii:28. 

RIGHT DOING AND ITS 
RESULTS. 

If we are not doing positive good we 
are doing positive evil. Therefore, right 
doing is absolutely necessary. 

I. For entrance into the Kingdom oj 
Heaven. Matt. vi:2i. 

Doing God's will, therefore, is the con- 
dition for entrance into the kingdom 
What is His will? See Matt. xviii:3, John 
iii: 3. Mark i: 15. 

(a) Repent. Luke xxiv.47. II Pet. 
iii :q. Acts xvii:3o; iii: 19. 

(b) Believe. Acts xvi:3i. John vi: 2 8, 
29. Rom. i:i6. John v: 24^ 



(c) Confess. Rom. x:g, 10. 
God's way into the Kingdom. Re- 
pent. Believe. Confess. 

2. For Friendship. John xv:i4. 
Why so little friendship with Jesus? 

Disobedience. 

Notice special commandment here, v. 12. 
Note word luhatsoever. 

3. For Sonship. Gal. iv:6. 

But that we may know the joy, experi- 
ence the assurance of so blessed a rela- 
tionship, we must obey the Father. This 
obedience not that of a bond servant, but 
the loving obedience of those who. have 
been called into the liberty of the chil- 
dren of God. Gal. iv:7; v:i. 

If sons, then heirs. Rom. viii: 17. 

How slow we are in going up to possess 
the land — our inheritance in Christ Jesus. 
What is the hindrance? Disobedience. 
See John vii:i7. II Cor. vi:i4-i8. 

We must take our true place. In sep- 
aration. 

Separated from sin and all appearance 
of evil. 

Then, and not till then, shall we know 
the fulness of blessing flowing out of 
Sonship. 

Responsibility. Matt. xxi:28. Mark 
xvi:i5. 

4. For Co??imunion. 

Fellowship. What an unspeakable 
knowledge. I John i:3. 

Yet how few enter into it. What's 
wrong? Disobedience. 

See Matt. vi:6. 

Secret Power. I John i:6, 7. 

W T alking with God. 

5. For Happiness. 

It is God's purpose that every child of 
His should be unspeakably happy, even* 
in this life. Then why so little unknown.. 
Disobedience. 

See Matt. v:i-n. Johnxiii:i7. (Read 
from 1st verse.) See Ps. cxliv:i5. 

6. For Power. 

Why so weak, when we have had given 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



"3 



nothing short of the Almighty power of 
God? 

Why so little manifestation of' this 
power?' Disobedience. 

The Temple is so much occupied with 
self and worldliness that the Holy Spirit 
— the premised power — cannot manifest 
Himself. 

What to be done? ^//"-abandonment. 
Mark viii:34, 3:. John xii:26. 

The Temple (which is our body) must 
be fully given up to God. Rom. xii:i, 2. 

The Promise. Acts i:S; iv;3l-33. 

Mark significance of the words, 
"power," "therefore," "go ye," "I am 
with you." Matt, xxviii:i8-20. 

7. For Reward. 

No reward without service. 

No service without power. 

No power without happiness. 

No happiness without communion. 

No communion without Sonship. 

No Sonship without friendship. 

No friendship unless we are in the 
Kingdom of God. 

We must do His will if we would share 
His glory. 

See Luke vi:22, 23. Matt, xxv.21. 
Luke xix:i3. Rev. xxii:i2. Luke vi:46. 
Matt. xxv:23. Luke xii .-35-40. Rev. xxii: 
14. I Cor. xv:5S. Phil. iv:8, 9. 

Do, and the God of Peace shall be with 
you. 



WHAT THE LORD WOULD 
HAVE US LIKE. 

1. Like a wise Man. Matt. vii:24. 
Deut. xxxii:29. 

Planted by God in good soil. In Christ. 
Matt. xv:i3. Isa. 1x1:3. 

2. Like the Palm Tree. Ps. xcii:i2, 

13. 

Grow outward (from within). Upward. 
Fruitful (heavenly). 

3. Like the Cedar Tree. Ps. xcii:i2, 
14. 

Grow for use — service. 
8 



4. Like the green Olive Tree. Ps. lii:3. 
Grow in the Spirit — illuminate. 

5. Like a Tree planted by the water. 
Ps. i:3. Jer xvii:8. 

Grow cheerful. Rejoice. 

6. Like a good Tree. Matt, ill: 10 ; John 
xv:6. See John xv:S. 

Grow for others. Fruitful. 

7. Like the Lily. Hos. xiv:5. Matt. 
xxvi 127-29. 

Grow in purity. Holiness. 

8. Like a tvatered garden. Isa. lviii:ii. 
Grow beautiful, attractive, inviting. 

9. Like an unfailing spring. Isa. 
lviii : 1 1 . 

Grow continuously. Occupy till I come. 

10. Like Himself. Rom. vi:5. Phil. 
iii:2i. I John iii:2. 

Grow in Christ. For glory. 
I shall be satisfied when I awake in His 
likeness. Ps. xvi:i5. 



ACCESS TO GOD. 

Lev. xvi:2, 3, 17, 30. 

The Priests in the holy place. 

The High Priest the most- holy place. 

Christ our great High Priest. Heb. 
ix:n, 12. 

Entered in once for all. 

Once for all time. Once for all sinners. 

The anointed One. 

The sanctified One. 

The separated One. 

The Holy One. 

Obtained, i. e., purchased; procured or 
secured. Eternal redemption, deliverance 
and salvation. I Pet. i:i8-23; iio-9. 
Rev. i:5, 6. 

Access. 

1. By Christ. Rom. v.2. Eph. ii:i3; 
iii:i2. Heb. vii:i9. John xiv:6. 

2. By Blood. Heb. ix:i2; x:i9-22. 

3. By Holy Spirit. Eph. ii:i8. Rom. 
viii:26. 

4. By Grace. Heb. vii:i9. Rom. v:2. 

5. By Faith. Rom. v:2. Eph. iii:i2. 
Heb. xi:6. 



114 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



(). Without Fear. Heb. iv:i6. 

Our place of worship inside the veil 
H> b, x:ii. 

( )ur place of testimony outside the 
cai.'ip. Heb. xiii:i2, 13. 



THE CHRISTIAN IN RELATION 
TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

A Temple. A Vessel. 

Read I Cor. xii: — 

The mutual relationship of the Holy 
Spirit and the Christian is one of the 
mor.t important and comforting of all 
Trr.th that we know of, the bond of 
union between the Bride and the Bride 
groom, and which makes the Christian 
life a great and blessed reality. 

We are in relation to the Holy Spirit 
Temples and Vessels. I Cor. vi:ig; Hi 
16. 17. Eph. ii:22 II Cor. iv:7. 

The question is, Am I a temple of the 
Holy Spirit, and not simply do I belong 
to Him, but is He in possession? 

i 1) The operation of the Holy Spirit 
cor* dng into possession. 

] . Striving. Gen. vi:3. Acts. vii:5i. 

t. Convincing. John xvi'-8, 9. Acts 
ii:?7- 

<„ Regeneration. John iii:3-8. Titus 
in:;;. 

Row in possession. 

4,,. Indwelling. Gal. iv:6. Not to 
make us sons, but because we a)-e sons. 
See Rom. viii:o,. Make personal applica- 
tion. 

(b) Two families. 

Origin. 

'i r lesh. Spirit. John iii:6. 

Nature. 

Js Flesh. After Flesh. Is Spirit. Af- 
ter Spirit. John iii:6; Rom. viii:5. 

Standing. 

In the Flesh. In the Spirit. Rom. 
viiiig. 

Inclination. 

Mind the things of the Flesh. Mind 
the things of the Spirit. Rom. viii:5. 



End. 

Death. Life and Peace. Rom. viii:6. 
Gal. vi:8. 

Look at the emblems God uses 

The Temple. John ii: 19, 21 ; I Cor. vi: 

FQ.— 

See more particularly The Vessel. 

1. Vessels of Mercy. Rom. ix:23, 24 
What grace ! 

2. Chosen Vessels. Acts ix: 15; Paul, 
"the chief of sinners!" Eph. i:4, "Cho- 
sen us" to bear His name. 

3. Earthen Vessels. II Cor. iv:7. 
The Treasure, (a) Comforter. John 

xiv:i6. 

(b) Helper. Rom. viii:26. 

(c) Intercessor. Rom. viii:26, 27. 

(d) Teacher. John xiv:26; I Cor. ii; 1 3. 

(e) Guide John xvi:i3; Gal. v:i8. 

(f) Strength. Power. Acts i:8; I Cor. 
11:4. 

Have we this treasure ? 

What of the vessel, the casket to hold 
so valuable a treasure. 

The Treasure the most valuable that 
can be named. 

The Vessel, the weakest that can be 
conceived; earthy, no merit, corrupt, 
frail, how soon broken and gone. A 
vessel is a passive thing, cannot give, can 
only receive. 

See the object in II Cor. iv:7. Excel- 
lency of power, not of zts. Ps. cxv:i; 
c. f. Judges vii:i6, 20, 22. 

4. Vessels unto Honor. II Tim. ii:2i, 
read verses 19 to 21. "Depart" (stand 
aloof), " Purge." Surely such a Holy 
Treasure is worthy of a Holy Vessel. 

' Chrysostom," says St. Lucian, "when 
asked by his persecutors, 'What country?' 
A Christian !' 'What occupation ?' 'A 
Christian !' ' What family ?' 'A Chris- 
tian !' " 

Lesson. "Be filled with the Spirit," 
Eph. v:i8, i. e. not our having more of 
the Spirit, but He having more, yea all of 
us ! 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



115 



See Rev. xxi:22. How changed ! 

Nozo, we are the Temple. Then, God 
is the Temple. 

NoWy God is the Guest. Then, we 
are the Guests. 

Now, we entertain Him. Then He 
will entertain us. Rev. iii:2o; Luke xii: 
37- 



THE CHRISTIAN'S RELATION- 
SHIPS. 

First read Luke xiv:26, 27, 33, John 
viii:3i; xv:8. 

1. In Relation to Grace. 

A debtor. I Cor. xv:io, cf., Rom. viii: 
12. 

2. In Relation to Faith. 

A believer. John Hi: 16-18; v:24; Luke 
vii:5o; II Cor .v:7; Heb. xi:i; Eph. ii:8; 
Rom. iii:2S; Rom. v:i; Heb. xii:i, 2. 

3. In Relation to Spiritual Life. 

A new man — in Christ. II Cor. v:i7, 
Col. ii-6, 7. 

Christ in Him. John i:i2; Eph. iii: 1 7 ; 
Gal ii:2o; Rom. viii:io; II Cor. xiii:5; 
John xv 14, 5. 

4. In Relation to God. 

A child. (1) Gal. iv:4, 5. (2) John i: 
12. (3) Rom. viii: 14, 16. (4) John xx: 
*7- (5) I John iii:2. (6) Gal. iii: 26; iv: 
7. (7) Matt. vi. 25-32. 

5. In Relation to Christ. 

Bride. (1) His wondrous love. Gal. 
ii:2o; Eph. v:25. 

Compare I John iv:ig. 

(2) The Mysterious Union. (a) In 
type. Gen. 11:21-24. 

(b) In promise. Hos. ii: ig, 20. 

(c) In fulfillment. Matt xxii:2. 

(d) In reality. Isa. liv.5; Eph. v:30, 
32; II Cor. xi:2; I Cor. xii:27. 

(e) In present expe?ience. Matt. ix:i5; 
Matt, xxv: 10- 1 3. 

(f) In hope. John xiv:i, 2; xvii:23, 

24- 

(g) In glory. Rev. xxi:2, 9; Rev. xix: 

7-9- 



6. In Relation to Knozuledge. 
A man of Assurance. II Tim. i:i2; II 
Cor. v:i; I John iv.13; iii:2_j.; Phil, iii: 
10; John v i i i - 3 1 , 32. 

7. In Relation to the World. 

An alien; separated. Gal. i;4 ; John 
xvii:6; John xvii:i6; Johnxvii:i4; I John 
ii * 1 5 ; Rom. xii:2. 

How is it with the great mass of pro- 
fessing Christians to-day ? Fashion, 
opera, dance, etc. An alien is a foreigner. 
Phil. iii:20 R. V. Are we such borderers 
that the world cannot tell to what country 
we belong ? What would be the results if 
our Relation to the World was more 
manifest? John xvi:33; John xvii:i4; 
xv:i8-2i; Jas. ii:7, R. V. I Pet. iv:i4, 
16. R. V, 

8. In Relation to Sin. 

Dead. Rom. vi:6-u; Col. ii:2o; Gal. 
ii:20, R. V. 

Lesson. Read the whole sixth chapter 
of Romans. 

9. In Relation to Character. 

A Saint (sanctified, holy.) Phil. i:20, 
21; I Pet. i: 1 5 , 16; Gal. ii:2o; John xv:4_ 
As we abide in the vine ; Christ Jesus the 
Holy One, we reproduce His Holy Life. 

IG. In Relation to Influence. 

Alight. Matt. v:i4; Eph. v.8; Mark 
our responsibility. 

11. In Relation to the Gospel. 
Stewards. I Thess. ii:4; Mark xvi:i5; 

I Cor. iv:i, 2; I Pet. iv:io, 11. Think 
of the millions who are perishing for the 
want of what you possess. There are 
over 1,400,000,000 souls to-day living 
without God and without hope in the 
world — what about our faithfulness ? 

12. In Relation to Commtmion. 

A Friend. John xv:i4, 15; Jas. ii:23. 

13. In Relation to Strength. 

All Powerful. Job xxiii:6; Ps. xxix: 
11; Isa. xl:29, 31; Acts i:8; I John iv:4; 
Mark ix:23; Phil. iv:i3. 

14. In Relation to Experience. 
Rejoicing— see Epistle to Philippians. 



n6 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Joy and rejoice some eighteen times. Sin 
not mentioned once. In thy presence is 
fullness of joy. Psa. xvi:ii; Rom. xv:i3. 

15. In Relation to Progress. [20. 
A Pilgrim. Heb. xi:i3, 14; Phil, iii: 

16. In Relation to Expectation. 

An heir. John xiv:i-3; Rom. viii: 17, 
18; Col. iii:4; I Pet. K3-5. 

17. In Relation to the Works. 

A Servant. Rom. vi: 16-22; Titus ii: 
14; iii:8; Eph. ii: 10. 

1 8. In Relation to Law of God. 

Free. Rom. viii:i~3; Gal. iii : 13 ; ii:2o; 
v:i8. 

19. In Relation to Self. 

Not his own. Acts xxvii:23; I Cor. 
vi:T9, 20; Matt. xvi:24. 



THE BODY OF CHRIST. 
I Cor. xii:2"; Eph. v.30-32: Eph. 1:22, 

23- 

Association with us. Luke i:3i, 35; 
ii:io-i2; John 1:14; Heb. ii:i4: Rom. 
dii:3. 

Death. John iii: 14; xii:2 3, 24; Luke 
ix:22^ Matt. xxvii:3i, 35; Isa. liii:4-6; I 
Pet. ii:24; I Tim. ii:6; Titus ii:i4; Gal. 
ii:20. 

Crucified with Christ. Gal. ii:2o; Rom. 
vi-5-8; Col. iii .3. 

Buried with Him. Rom. vi:4; Col. ii: 
12; Rom. iv:25. 

Risen with Him. I Cor. xv: 14-20; 
Col. ii: r 2, 13; Eph. ii: 5 , 6. 

Sitting Together. Eph. ii:6. 

Living Together. I Thess. v:iO; II 
Cor. v:i5, 17; Rom. vi:ii; Col. ii:2o; iii: 
1 , 3 and 5 . 

Working Together. II Cor. vi:i; 
Matt. xxviii:i8-2o; Markxvi::o. 

Suffering Together. Rom. viii: 19; I 
Pet. iv:i; Phil, iii: 10. 

Glorified Together. Acts i:ii; John 
xiv:i-3; Rom. viiui8; Col. iii. 4; I John 
iii:2; I Thess. iv:i3-i8. 

With Him in Judgment. I Cor. vi:2; 
Dan. vii:22; Matt. xix:28; Jude xiv:i5. 



WHATSOEVER. 

1. Whatsoever of Sowing and Reaping. 
Gal. vi:7. 

2. Whatsoever of Disobedience. Jer.. 
xliv:i6, 17. 

3. Whatsoever of Unbelief. Rom. 
xiv:23; (see Heb. xi:6.) 

4. Whatsoever of Obedience. Gen. 
xxxi:i6; John ii : 5 ; Deut. xii:32: Jer. i:7; 
Matt. xxviii:20. 

5. Whatsoever of Friendship. John 
xv:i4. 

6. Whatsoever of Confession. Judges 
x:i5- 

7. Whatsoever of Present Opportuni- 
ties. Eccl. ix:io. 

8. Whatsoever of Unselfish Recipro- 
cation. Matt, vii: 12. 

9. Whatsoever of Prosperity. Ps. 1:3. 
10. Whatsoever of Motive. I Cor. x:3i; 

Col. iii: 17; iii:23. 

11. Whatsoever of Prayer Matt, xxi: 
22; Mark xi:24; John xiv:i3; I John iii: 
22; v:i4, 15. 

12. Whatsoever of Circumstances, 
Phil. iv:n (cf. 6, 7). ("I will be all right 
by and by — it's all right now." 

13. Whatsoever of Guidance. John 
xiv:26. 

14. Whatsoever of Reward. Matt. 
xx:4, 7. 

Finally. Phil. iv:8, 9. 



PROVE ALL THINGS. 
I Thess. v:2i. 

1. Yourself. II Cor. xiii:5; I Cor. xi: 
28; 1 John iii:20 to end. 

By their fruits ye shall know them. 
God's perfect law the standard. All 
come short. Gal. vi:4; Ps. xxvi:2. Ps. 
cxxxix:23; (Jer. xvii:io.) 

Tekel. Weighed and found wanting. 

2. God. Mai. iii: 10. Rom. xii:i, 2. 

3. Christ. Acts ix:22. . (See v. 20.) 
Lukexxiv:2 7, 44; Acts xvii:2, 3. 

4. Daily Walk. Eph. v:i; (see vs. 
8-11); v:i5; iv:i. Gal. vi:i4-i6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



117 



5. Sincerity of your love. II Cor, 



FAITH. 
1. 
I, Receives. John i:i2; Luke xviii: 



17. 



2. Rests. Heb. iv:3. 

3. Saves. Luke vii:50. 

11. 

1. Purifies the heart. Acts xv:<). 

2. Works by love. Gal. v:6. 

3. Overcomes the world. I John v:4. 



GOOD CHEER! 

"God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes," is blessedly true of the expe- 
rience of those who dwell with Him in 
heaven. But what of this life? Has he 
no concern for, no interest in, no comfort 
for those in sorrow and need in this life ? 
Luke iv:iS, 19. 

The Gospel, glad tidings, good news, 
light for darkness, joy for sorrow, life for 
death. Good cheer! 

I. From Christ's Call. Mark x:46-52. 
What Bartimeus had not. (1) Sight. 

(2) Riches. (3) Friends. 

What Bartimeus had. (1) Hearing. (2) 
Reason. (3) Voice. 

He made use of his hearing and re- 
ceived sight. 

He made use of his reason and received 
true riches. 

He made use of his voice and received 
a Friend that sticketh closer than a 
brother. 

cf. Hearing, John v: 24. Reason, Isa. 
1:iS. Calling, Ps. cxlv:i8; xci:i5. 

See John xi:28, 29. What cheer to 
poor sorrowing Mary ! 

II. From Forgiven Sin. Matt. ix:2. 
What has caused more sorrow than 

sin? Ps. xxxii:i-5. 

What brings greater joy than sin for- 
given ? Acts xiii:33, 39. 



Happy is the man whose sins are all 
forgiven. See, Ps. ciii:3, 4, 5, 6, 13. 

"Be of good cheer. Thy sins are for- 
given thee." 

III. Fiom Grace Received. Matt. ix:2o, 
22. Luke viii:42-48. 

1. Her need of comfort. Twelve years, 
spent all her living, grew worse. 

2. Comfort received. (1) Daughter. 
(2) Good comfort. (3) Made whole. 

IV. From Christ's Personal Presence. 
Mark vi:45"52. Matt. xiv:22~33. 

1 . They were where the Lord directed. 

2. They were in great trouble. 

3. They were not able to remove the 
trouble. 

What the cause of their fear ? Matt. 
xiv:26. 

"W T hat removed their fear ?" John vi: 
20, 21. 

Nothing short of a real, living, personal 
Christ with us, can give the comfort our 
souls need. See Isa. xliii:i, 2; xli:io. 1 

"V. From Victory over the World. John 
xvi:33« 

In the world, tribulation. In Christ, 
peace. Two facts. 

Tribulation, John xv: 19-21; II Tim. 
iii:i2. 

Good cheer. "I have overcome the 
world," not only before you, but for you. 

Because I live ye shall live also. I 
John v:4, 5. 

He leads the way as Captain of our 
Salvation, and through Him "we are 
more than conquerors." 

VI. From Service. Acts xxiii: 10-13. 
Oh, how often in His service do we 

become discouraged ! Weary by the way ! 
Grieved at so little fruit and so much op- 
position. How intensely human we all 
are. I Kings, xix: — 
But see Ps. xxvii;i-5. 

VII. From Faith in the Divine Truth- 
fulness. Acts xxvii: 18-25. 

In these days of uncertainty and decep- 
tion, He remaineth faithful; He believed 



n8 



NOTES FOR BIELE READINGS. 



in his God. Dan. vi;22, 23; also see Dan. 
iii:i6, 17. 

Faith cometh by hearing, etc. Rom. x: 
17I II Pet. i: 16-2 1. 

See I Pet. v:7; c. f. Rotherham. 



OUR INHERITANCE. 

I Pet. i:3-5. 

t. Heirs of Salvation. Heb. 1:14. 

2. Heirs of the Grace of Life I Pet. 
hi: 7. 

3. Heirs of the Promises. Heb. vi:i7. 

4. Heirs of the Kingdom. Jas. ii:5; 
Luke xii:32. 

Prepared. Matt. xxv:34. 
Cannot be moved. Heb. xii:28. 
Everlasting, II Pet. i:ii. 

5. Heirs of Righteousness. Heb. xi:7. 
By faith see. Ps. xxiv:5. 

6. Heirs of Glory. Rom. viii:i7, 18. 

7. Heirs of God. Rom. viii:i7; Gal. 
iv:6, 7, 

8. Joint Heirs with Christ. Rom. viii: 
17- 

Lesson. I Pet. 1:3. His abundant 
mercy. 



CONSIDER! REMEMBER!! FOR- 
GET NOT!!! 

1. Consider how great things He hath 
done for yoti! What have you done for 
Him? 

Josh. xxiii:i4; I Kings viii:56; I Sam. 
xii:24. 

2. Remember the Great Deliverance. 
Deut. v:i5; xv:i5; Eph. iini-13. 

3. Beware! There's danger. Forget 
not. Remember. 

Deut. vi:i2; viii:ii-i4; Ps. ciii:2. 

Heb. ii:i. "Run out as leaking ves- 
sels." 

What we should forget. Phil, iii : 1 3. 

What God forgets. Isa. xliir.25. Jer. 
xxxi.34. 

What God does not forget. Isa xlix: 
14-16. 

4. Consider your ways. / 



Hag. 1:5-7; Ps. cxix:59, 60. 

5. Hearken. Stand still. Consider. 
Jer. vi:i6; Job. xxxvii:i4; Ps. viii:3, 4. 

6. Consider how they grow. 
Consider the hand that feedeth thee. 

Matt, vi.28, 29: Luke xii:24. See v. 20. 

7. Be wise. Consider. The end. 
Prov. xiv:ii; Deut. xxxii:29, 31; Jer. 

v:3i; viii:20; Ps. 1:22; ix:i7; Luke xvi: 
25. 

Time. I Cor. vii:2g; Eccl. viii:5-8; II 
Cor. vi:2; Rom. xiii:ii, 12; Eph. VH4-17. 

8. Wherefore consider. Gaze on Jesus 
our great High Priest in the heavens. 

The holy of holies. Consider Him. 
Heb. iii:i; xii:3. 



ESTABLISHED. 

1. Through Faith. II Chron. xx:20. 
Isa. vii:9. Rom. iv:5- John vi:28, 29. 
Rom. v:i.3. 

2. By whom? II Cor. i:2i, 22. Eph. 
ii:4, 10. Rom. xvi:25-27. 

3. On what Foundation? Ps. xki-4. 
Eph, ii:ig, 20. I Cor. iii: 11. 

4. In way of Safety. Ps. xxxvii:23, 24. 
cxxi. Isa. xli:io, 13. Rom. viii:35~39. 
II Chron. xxvii:6, margin. Isa. xxxv: 
8-10. 

5. In the Faith. Col. ii:6, 7. John 
vii:i6, 17; Acts xvi :4, 5; xvii:ii: xiv:22. 
II Cor. xiii:5. I Cor xvi:i3. Eph. iv:5, 
13, 14, 15. I Pet. iii:l5. II Tim. iv:6, 
7, 8. Rom. i:i6. 

6. In holiness. Deut. xxvirhg. Eph. 
i:3, 4. I Pet. ii:g. I Thess. iii: 12, 13. 
I Pet. 1:13-19. II Cor. vi:i6-i8. 

7. In Grace. Heb. xiiirg. Rom. iii: 24; 
v:i, 2; vi:i4. Titus ii:ii-i4. II Pet. 
iii:i7, 18., Eph. iii:i4-2i. 

8. In every Good W T ord and Work. II 
Thess. ii:i6, 17. II Cor. ix:8, John ix: 
4. I Pet. v:6-n. 



MORE THAN CONQUERORS. 

Rom. viii:37. Rev. vi:2. Jude 24, 25. 

The Secret of Victory. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



II 9 



i. Born again. I John v:4. 

2. Faith in Jesus as Son of God, I 
John.v:5. 

3. The blood of the Lamb. Rev. xii: 
11. R. V. 

4. Living, active Faith. I John v:4. 
Matt. xiv:3i. II Pet. i:l-ll. Eph. vi:i6. 

5. Testimony. Rev. xii:ii. Eph. vi: 

* 6. Self-control. I Cor. ix:25, 26, 27. 
R. V. 

7. Indwelling and abiding Word of 
God. I John ii:i4- John xv:7. Eph. 
vi:i4, 17. 

8. Indwelling of God the Spirit. I 
John iv:4- Eph. vi:iS. 

9. Praise and Thanksgiving. II Cor. 
ir.14. R. V. I Cor. xv:57. R. V. See 
II Chron. xx:2i, 22. 



REWARD TO VICTORS IN REV- 
ELATION. 

1. Rev. ii:7. Life. 

2. Rev. ii: 10, 11. Escape the second 
death. 

3. Rev. ii.17. Nourishment, a secret 
name. 

4. Rev. ii: 26-28. Power. Authority. 

5. Rev. iii:5. Clothed in white rai- 
ment. 

6. Rev. iii:i2. Honor. 

7. Rev. iii:2i. Fellowship with Him. 

8. Rev. xxi:7. Sonship. Heirship. 
See John xvi:33. 

ISAIAH LIII. 

Isa. liii;\. Who hath believed 010 
report ? 

John i:ii He came unto His own, 
and His own received Him not. 

Matt, xiii : 1 5. This people's heart is 
waxed gross, etc. 

John iv:4 S. Except ye see .... ye 
will not believe. 

John viii:45. Ye believe me not. 

Isa. liii:\. To whom is the arm of the 
Lord revealed? 



Matt. xi. 

John xii:37. Though He had done so 
many mighty works, they would not 
believe. 

Isa. liii:2. He shall grow up before 
Hini as a tender plant. 

II Sam. xxiii:4. As the tender grass 
clear shining after rain. 

Isa. liii:2. As a root out of a dry 
ground. 

Psa. lxxii:6. As rain upon the mown 
grass. 

Isa. xxxii;2. As the shadow of a great 
rock in a weary land. 

Isa. xxv:4. A shadow from the heat. 

Isa. liii:2. He hath no form or co?r,e- 
liness. 

Isa. Hi: 14. His visage so marked 
more than any man. 

Isa. xxxiii:i7. Thine eye6 shall see t le 
King in His beauty. 

Ps. xlv:2. Fairer than the children of 
men. 

Cant. v. 16. He is altogether lovely. 

Heb. i:3. The brightness of His 
glory. 

Isa. liii:^. He is despised and rejected 
of men. 

Acts iii: 14. Ye denied the Holy 0:ne 
and the just. 

Ps. xxii. A reproach of men and d^- 
spised of the people. 

Matt. ix:24. They laughed Him to 
scorn. 

Luke xxiii:35. They derided Him — 
they mocked Him. 

Isa. liii:2,. A man of sorrows. 

Ps. lxix:8. A stranger and an alien. 

Ps. xxii:6. A worm and no man. 

Deut. xxi:23. Accursed of God. 

Isa. liii:2>. Acquainted with grief . 

Matt, viir.17. Himself bare our sick- 
nesses. 

Heb. iv:i5. An high priest .... 
touched - with our. .... 

Acts xiii: 1 S. Forty years suffered He 
their manners. 



120 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Acts xvii:3. Christ must needs have 
suffered. 

Heb. ii:i8. He Himself hath suffered, 
being tempted. 

Heb. v:8. He learned obedience by 
the things which he suffered. 

Heb. xiii:i2. Christ suffered for us 
outside the gate. 

I Pet. ii:23. When he suffered He 
threatened not. 

Isa. liii:2>. We esteemed Him not. 

John i:46. Can any good thing come 
out of Nazareth ? 

Matt. xiii:55. Is not this the carpen- 
ter's son ? Mark vi:3. 

Isa. liii:/\. Surely He hath borne our 
gtief 

Col. i:24. The afflictions of Christ. 

Isa. lxiii:g. In all their afflictions He 
was afflicted. 

Isa. liii:\. Stricken, smitten of Goa 
a nd afflicted. 

Isa. 1.6. He gave His back to the 
si niters. 

Matt. xxvi:67. They spit in His face. 

Heb. xii:2. He endured the cross — 
despising the shame. 

Isa. liii:S. He was wounded for out 
tti'Aisgressions, etc. 

Rom. v;6. Christ died for the un- 
godly. 

,'ilom. iii:23. All have sinned and 
come short of the glory of God. 

Heb. xiii:i2. That He might sanctify 
. . , suffered. 

Col. i:i4. To whom we have redemp 
tion through His blood. 

Rev. i:5, 6. Washed us from our sins 
in His own blood. 

Isa. liii:$. With His stripes we are 
healed. 

l Pet. ii:2.|. His own self bare our 
sins. • . .with whose stripes, etc. 

Isa. liii:6. All we like sheep have gone 
astray. 

I Pet. ii:25. Ye were as sheep going 
asfay. 



I have gone astray like 
They were scattered as 



Ps. cxix.176. 
a lost sheep. 

Ezek. xxxiv:5. 
sheep. 

Isa. liii;6. The Lord hath laid on Him 
the iniquity of us all. 

Rom iv:25. He was delivered for our 
offences. 

II Cor v:2i. He hath made Him to 
be sin for us. 

Heb. ix:28. Christ was once offered to 
bear the sin of many. 

Isa. liii.-]. As a lamb before her shear- 
ers is dumb. 

Acts viii:32. As a lamb before her 
shearers. 

Isa. liii."]. So He opened not His 
mouth. 

Matt, xxvi.63. Jesus held His peace. 
Mark xv:5; John xix:c). 

Isa. liii.S. He was taken from prison 
and f torn judgment. [away. 

Acts viii:33. His judgment was taken 

Isa. liii:&. He was cut off out of the 
land of the living. 

I Cor. xv.3. Christ died for our sins. 

I Thess. v:io. Who died for us that 
we should live to Him. 

Isa. liii. ;g. He made His grave with 
the wicked. 

Matt. xxvii:38. There were two 
thieves. Mark xv:28; Luke xxii:37- 

Isa. liii:q. And with the tick in His 
death. 

Matt. xxvii:6o. They laid Him in a 
new tomb. Mark xv;46; Luke xxiii:53; 
Johnxix:4i. 

Isa. liii:g. He hath done no violence, 
etc. 

1 Pet. ii:22. Who did not sin, neither 
was guile found in His mouth. 

I John lii : 5 . In Him was no sin. 

II Cor. v2i. Who knew no sin. 
Luke xxiii:4i. This man hath done 

nothing amiss. 
Isa. liii: 10. 
\ bruise Him. 



It pleased the Lord 



to 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



John iii:i6. God so loved the world 
■etc 

Rom. v:8. God commendeth His love 
toward us, etc. 

Isa. liii :io. He shall sec His seed. 

Heb. ii: 12, 13. I and the children 
God hath given me. 

John xvii:i2. Those thou gavest me 

Johni:i2. Sons of God. 

Isa. liii:io. He shall prolong His 
days. 

Rom vi:g. Christ dieth no more. 

Rev. i:i8. I am alive forevermore. 

Rev. v:i4. Who liveth forever and 
ever. 

Rev. iv:g; xv:7; x:6. Who liveth for- 
ever and ever. 

I Thess. i:9- The living and true 
God. 

Isa. liii :io. The pleasure of the Lora 
shall prosper, etc. 

II Thess. i:ii. Good pleasure of His 
goodness. 

Eph i:5-9. Good pleasure of His. will. 

Matt. xi:26. Even so, Father, for it 
seemeth good in thy sight. 

Isa. liii: 11. By His knowledge. 

John xvii:3. To know Thee, the only 
true God. 

II Pet. i:3. Through His knowledge. 

Isa . liii ■ 1 1 My rig h teo us serva 11 1. 

Isa. xliikio. My servant whom I have 
chosen. 

Isa. xlii:i. Behold my servant. 

Isa. xlix:6. Shouldst be my servant. 

Isa. lii : 1 3. Behold my servant. 

Zech. iii:8. My servant, the branch. 

Isa. liii :\i. Justify many. 

Rom. v:i8. Justification of life. 

Isa. lii: 1 2. [honor. 

Heb. ii :q. Crowned with glory and 

Acts ii:33- Being by the right hand of 
God exalted. 

Cant. v:io. The chiefest among ten 
thousand. 

Col. i:ig; ii :q. In Him dwelleth all the 
fulness of God. 



Ps. lxviii: 18. Thou hast led captivity 
captive. 

Col. ii: 1 5. Triumphing over them. 

Heb. vii:25. .Able to save to the ut- 
termost. 

I John ii:i. We have an advocate 
with the Father. 

Rom. viii:34. Maketh intercession for us. 

John i: 14. Full of grace and truth 

Phil. ii:6-n. Humiliation; exaltation; 
Anon. 



" WINNING SOULS." 
He that winneth souls is wise. Prov. 
xi:30. 

1. Our Prayer. Acts ix:6; Ps. Ii. 

2. Our Field. Mark xvi:i5; John i: 
41, 42, 45; John iv:2S, 29; Mark v:ig, 
20; Acts viii:26, etc.; Acts xvi: 1 3-15, 30- 
34; Jas. v:20; Acts i:8. 

3. Our Time Matt. xxi:28; II Cor. 
vi:2; Eccl. ix:io; II Thess. iii : 13 ; Rev. 
xxii:j. 

4. Our Motive. II Cor. v:i4 ; Col. 
iii: 23 ; John xxi:i5:i7. 

5. Our Helper. Matt. xxviii:20. ; II 
Cor. xii:g, Johnxv:5; Heb. xiii: 5. 

6. Our Theme. John iii: 16; Gal. vi: 
14; I Tim. i : 1 5 ; Rom. iv.25; Rom. v:i, 
2; John v:24; I John i:7; I Johnv:i3. 

7. Our Message. Ezek. xxxiii:n; II 
Tim. iv:2; Rom. i:i6; I Cor. i:i8; I 
Thess. ii:4; Eph. vi:i7. 

8 Our Strength (or Power). Zech. iv: 
6; John xiv:i6, 17, 26; John xv:26; John 
xvi:7-n, 13; Actsi:S; Acts ii:l-4; Acts 
iv:3i, 33; Matt. xxviii:iS-2o. 

9. Our Examples John ix:4; Luke ii: 
49; Phil, ii : 3, etc.; Rom. x:i; Acts viii: 
26, etc. 

10. Our Reward. Matt. xxv:23; II 
Tim. iv:8; Ps. cxxvi:6; Rev. xxii:i2. 

ESSENTIALS TO EFFECTIVE 
CHRISTIAN WORK. 

Phil iii. 

The secret of all Christian work is to 
let God work in us. 



22 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



In two words, Life and Liberty. 

t. Life, v. 8, God's order. Life out of 
or through death. John xii:24, 26; Gal 
ii:20. 

2. Liberty, v. io. Multitudes of Chris- 
tians in bondage. 

Liberty, from doubt, fear, world, flesh, 
men, devil. 

1. Know Him, not simply to know 
what He has done, and what He is do- 
ing, but know Him. See John viii:32, 

36. 

Faith necessitates a loving, approach- 
able person. 

2. Know Him as Saviour, past, pres- 
ent and future. 

3. Know Him as Leader 

4. Know Him as an Example, self- 
sacrifice, love, obedience. 

5. Know Him as Partner, v. 10. 
Co-workers . What a glorious truth. 
We rejoice in the joint co-heirship. 
What of the joint co-partnership? 
Partnership in all the life. Weal, woe. 

Heb. xiii:i3. 

6. Know Him as Power. The Chris- 
tian life is intended to manifest power. 
Possibilities, Phil. iv:i3; Impossibilities, 
John xv:5. See Mark xxviii:i8. 

7. Know Him as Hope, v. 20. 

Oh! What reward when we share the 
spoils. 



YE ARE THE LIGHT OF THE 
WORLD. 

Matt. v:i4-i6. 

The whole world lieth in wickedness; 
corrupt, darkened, blind. 

Men love darkness rather than light, 
because their deeds are evil. 

The devil the Prince of the world. See 
him boasting. Matt. iv:g; II Cor. iv:4. 
Eph. ii:2; Rev. xiiig; Matt. xxv:4i. 

God's purposes concerning the world. 
John iii:i6, 17. 

Hear what Jesus Himself has to say. 
John iv:42; vi:5i; xii:47. 

John the Baptist. John i:29. 



Holy Ghost. II Cor. viio/, I John ii:2; 

I John iv:i4; I Tim. 1:15; Gal. i:4. 
The Christian in the world — 
Chosen out of the world, therefore not 

of the world. John, xv.rg. 

1. John xvii:6. Given to Christ out of 
the world. 

2. John xvii.11. Left in the world. 

3. John xvii:i4. Not of the world, v 
16. I John ii : 1 5 , 17. 

4. John xvii:i4. Hated by the world. 
xv:i8. 

5. John xvii:i5. Kept from evil of the 
world. 

6. John xvii:i8. Sent into the world. 

7. John xvii:20. Sent to preach the 
Word to the world. Mark xvi:i5. 

Jas. 1:27. Keep unspotted from the 
world. 

Jas. iv.4. The friendship of the world 
is enmity with God. 

I John ii:i2-i 5. Love not the world. 

Rom. xii:2. Be not conformed to this 
world. 

Titus ii:i2. Live godly in this pres- 
ent world. 

Gal. vr.14. Crucified (dead) to the 
world. 

I John iv.17. As He is so are we in 
this world. 

"Greater is He that is in you than he 
that is in the world." 

Ye are the light of the world, v. 13. 

Light the opposite of darkness. Em- 
blem of Joy, Comfort, Happiness, Pros- 
perity, Power, Purity, Life. 

Our Light. "God is light." "I am 
the light." 

"Thy Word is a lamp" "and a light." 

"The entrance of Thy Word giveth 
light." 

"The Lord is my light and my salva- 
tion." 

The Word. Ps. cxix:i05, 130; II Pet. 
i : 1 9 ; II Cor. iv:6. 7. 

Let this (your light) shine. Phil, ii: 
15, 16. 



NOTES FOR EIBLE READINGS. 



I23 



Keep near to Jesus and like Moses, 
our faces will shine forth — reflect His 
glory. Ex. xxxiv:35. 

Let us diffuse the light of heavenly 
knowledge and the warmth of Divine 
love wherever we are. 

We represent Him here in the world 
Acts i:8; Isa. xliiino. 

Our standing orders. Preach the 
Word. Be instant in season and out of 
season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all 
long suffering. 

To every one his special mission. Mark 
xiii:34; Matt, xxv.14, 15; I Pet. iv:io; 
Rom. xiv.u; Rev. xxii.12. 

Oh, let us every one be out and out for 
Christ. 

PERSONAL WORK. 

John xvii:i8. 

To every man his work. 

Son, go work to-day in my vineyard. 

1. What am I doing? 
I must be about my Father's business 
Am I doing His work? 
Not hearers of the Word only, but 

doers. 

"How call ye me Lord, Lord, and do 
not," etc. 

2. What am I going to do? 
We start out from henceforth under in- 
creased responsibilities. 

'T do always those things that please 
Him." Phil, iii 13, 14. 

"Whatsoever He saith unto you, do 
it." 

3. When am I going to do it? 
"I do always." 
"I must work the works, etc., while it 

is day." 

"Son, go work to-day" Now! 

4. H07U am I going to do it? 
This is the most important question of 

all. 

(1.) The motive. Love to Him who 
hath done so much for me. 
"Do all to the glory of God." 



(2.) Faith. Dependence. 
"Without me ye can do nothing." 
"I can do all things through Christ 
which strengtheneth me " 
(3.) Hope. Titus ii :i 1-15. 
Behold I come quickly, and my reward 
is with me to give every man as his work 
shall be. 

PARABLE OF TWO SONS. 

Matt. xxi:2S; Mark xiii:33, etc.; Luke 
xix:i3-26; Matt. vii:2i, etc. 

To whom addressed? Matt. xxi:-23. 

Professors. "How call ye me Lord, 
Lord, and do not?" etc. 

True Religion is practical, active, 
positive, progressive, aggressive. 

I. Son. Whose son am I? Can I say, 
"My Father," 'Abba, Father." 

See Matt, xiir.38. John viii:44; I 
Johniii-8; Rom. viii:7, 8. 

Our Privilege. John i:i2. 

Sons of God. 

1. Who? "To as many as received 
Him." 

2. How? Gal. iii:26. I John v:i. 

3. When? I John iii: 2. Now. 

4. Assurance. Gal. iv:6, 7; Rom. viii: 
14-16. 

What a glorious relationship. John 
xx:i7. 

Behold! what manner of love! 

II. Go. (To the unsaved it is come! 
come!!) 

1. Come. 

2. Stand still and see the salvation of 
God. 

3. Go tell your brethren. 
Mark xvi:i5. "Go into all the world." 
Matt. xxii:9- "Go out into the high- 
ways and hedges." 

Mark v:i9- "Go home to thy friends 
and tell them," etc. 

Luke xiv.23. "Go and compel them 
to come in that my house may be filled." 

"Go work to-day in my vineyard." 

Go! but Go!! but Go!!! 



124 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



III. What? Work. Not enjoy your 
self. Not have good time. 

Follow the Master's example. 
Sonship. Co-partners. 
Service. Co-workers. No sleeping 
partners. 

His workmanship. Eph. ii:io. 

His peculiar people. Titus ii:i4; iii:8. 

IV. When? To-day. Past gone. Fu- 
ture not ours. To-day. 

Why to-day? It is our opportunity. 
God's Eternal Now. 

See II Cor. v:2o; vi:2. 

Last opportunity to save, gone. Last 
opportunity to be saved, gone. Johnix:4. 

V. Where? My Vineyard, i. e., where 
I send you. John i:4i, 42, 45; iv:28, 29. 
Mark viig, 20. Matt. xxii:g; xvi:i5. 

If you want a field of labor you can 
find it where you are. 

VI. Why? 1. Father orders it. Obe- 
dience of love. 

2. Souls in peril demand it. Rom. i: 14. 

3. It magnifies the grace of God. 
Rom. v:20, 21. 

4. It glorifies God. John xv.8. 

5. Uncertainty of time to work. Matt. 
xxiv:36. John ix:4. 

6. Certainty of reward. I Cor. xv:58: 
Dan. xii:3; Rev. xxii:i2; Matt. x:42. 

7. No excuse. II Cor. ix:8. 

8. Love of Christ constraineth. II Cor. 

v:i4, 15. 

VII. What if we do not? See v. 19. 
Not a single soul "or Jesus — Starless 

crown. 

See I Cor. iii:i2-i5; Judges v:23. 

DELIVERANCE AND DUTY. 

DELIVERANCE. 

Deliverance from the Law. Rom. vii:6; 
vi:i4; x:4; Gal. iii: 13. 

Deliverance from Sin. I Pet. ii:24; 
John i:29; Rom. vi:6. 

Deliverance from the World. Gal. i:4; 
John xvii:6, 16: Phil. iii:20. 



Deliverance from the Flesh. Rom. viii: 
3. 9- 

Deliverance from the Devil. Heb. ii: 14. 

DUTY 

Our Duty regarding the 
v:i; John xiii:34, 35; Gal. v 



Gal. 



Law. 
13-26. 
I John ii:i 



Our Duty regarding Sin. 
Rom. vi:n; I Pet. i:i6. 

Our Duty regarding the World. I 
John ii:i5, 16; Col. iii:2; Matt. vi:2i; 
Phil. ii:i5, 16. 

Our Duty regarding the Flesh. 
iii:5; Gal. v:24; Phil. iii:3. 

Cur Duty regarding the Devil. 
iv:7; I Pet. v:8, 9; Eph. vi:i3, etc. 



Col. 



Jas. 



CHRISTIAN SERVICE. 

I. — THE PRELUDES TO SERVICE. 

Conversion. Ye turned to God from 
idols, to serve the living and true God. 
I Thess. i :g. 

Forgiveness. A conscience purged 
from dead works to serve the living God. 
Heb. ix:i4. 

Salvation. That we, being delivered 
out of the hand of our enemies, might 
serve Him without fear. Luke i:74. 

Adoption, Let My son go, that he 
may serve Me. Ex. iv:23. 

As a man spareth his own son that 
serveth him. Mai. iii : 1 7. 

Separation. Let My people go that 
they may serve Me. Ex. vii:i6. 

Readiness. Speak, Lord, for Thy serv- 
ant heareth. I Sam. iii 19. 

Here am I, send me. Isa. vi:8. 

II. — THE PRINCIPLES OF SERVICE. 

Love. I love my master. Ex. xxi:5. 

By love serve one another. Gal. v:i3. 

Reverence. A servant honoreth his 
master. Mai i:6. 

The eyes of servants look unto the 
hand of their masters. Ps. cxxiii:2. 

Obedience. His mother saith unto the 
servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, 
do it. John ii : 5 . 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



125 



Consecration. Sanctified, and meet 
for the Master's use. II Tim. ii:2i. 

Ability. Able men and strength for 
the service. I Chron. xxvi:S. 

III. — THE PATTERN OF SERVICE. 

Behold my servant. Isa. xliiri. 

Christ Jesus, who being in the form of 
God, took upon Him the form of a ser- 
vant. Phil, ii :5~7- 

I must be about my Father's business. 
Luke ir.49. 

Whatsoever things the Father doeth, 
these also doeth the Son likewise. John 
v:i9. 

As the Father gave me commandment, 
even so I do. John xiv:3i. 

I am among you as He that serveth. 
Luke xxii:27. 

He learned obedience by the things 
which He suffered. Heb. v:8. 

Obedient unto death. Phil. ii:3. 

IV. — THE PATHWAY OF SERVICE. 

After Christ. If any man serve Me let 
him follow Me. John xii:26. 

Upright. He that walketh in a perfect 
way, he shall serve Me. Ps ci:6. 

Spiritual. I serve with my spirit in the 
Gospel. Rom. i:g. 

Bodily. Present your bodies a living 
sacrifice — which is your reasonable serv- 
ice. Rom. xii:i. 

Constant. Thou servest continually. 
Dan. vi:20. 

Thorough. In every work that he be- 
gan in the service of the house of God, 
he did it with all his heart. II Chron. 
xxxi:2i. 

Zealous. Fervent in spirit, serving the 
Lord. Rom. xii:n. 

V. — THE PRIVILEGES OF SERVICE. 

Honor. If any man serve Me, him 
will My Father honor. John xii:26. 

Favor. The king's favor is towards a 
wise servant. Prow xiv:35. 

Protection. There stood by me the 
angel of God, whom I serve. Acts xxvii: 



23. Thou Israel art My servant . fear 
thou not. Isa. xli:8, 10. 

Joy. My servants shall sing for joy of 
heart. Isa. Ixv:i4. Happy are these thy 
servants. I Kings x:8. 

Best. Take my yoke upon you — ye 
shall find rest unto your souls. Matt, xi: 
29. 

Fellowship. It is enough for the ser- 
vant that be be as his lord. Matt, x: 

24. 25. 

VI. — THE PROSPECTS OF SERVICE. 

The Presence of Christ. Where I am, 
there shall also my servant be. John 
xii:26. 

Conformity to Christ. His servants 
shall serve Him, and they shall see His 
face, and His name shall be on their fore- 
heads. Rev. xxii:3, 4. 

Rejoicing with Christ. Well done, 
good and faithful servant, nter thou into 
the joy of thy Lord. Matt. xxv:2i. 

Perfect service of Christ. They serve 
Him day and night in His temple. Rev. 
vir.15. 

Everlasting rule with Christ. His ser- 
vants shall reign forever and ever. Rev. 
xxii:3-5. 



SERVANTS AND STEWARDS. 

Luke xii:30-47. 

Key word — Ready, verse 40. 

"Fear not, little flock;" your Father 
knoweth, v. 30, your Father giveth, v. 32. 

The Father's good pleasure, the chil- 
dren's great treasure — the kingdom in 
heaven, vs. 32, 33. 

Practical Question. Where is the 
heart ? v. 34. 

LITTLE FLOCK. 
SERVANTS AND STEWARDS. 

I As Servants. 

Loins girded about, v, 35. 

Lights burning, v. 35. 

Looking for their Lord. v. 36, R. V. 

Blessed waiting, v. 36. 



126 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Blessed watching, v. 37. 

Blessed working, v. 43. 

Their reward: "He shall. .. .make 
them to sit down to meat, and will come 
forth and serve them." v. 37. 

"Blessed is the man that heareth me, 
watching daily at my gates, waiting at the 
posts of my doors." Prov. viii:34. 

His command: "Watch ye therefore " 
Mark xiii:35. 

Our attitude: "Wait for His Son from 
heaven.'' I Thess. i:io 

Our occupation: "To every man his 
work." Mark xiii:34. 

"Let Thy work appear unto Thy ser- 
vants." Ps. xc:i6. 

"Thy work shall be rewarded." Jer. 
xxxi:i6. 

II. As Stewards. 

Two things required, faithfulness and 
wisdom, v. 42. 

Not great success, not great works, but 
to be faithful. 

"It is required in stewards that a man 
be found faithful." I Cor. iv:2. 

"Be thou faithful unto death, and I 
will give thee a crown of life." Rev. 
ii:io. 

" As good stewards of the manifold 
grace of God." I Pet. iv:ro. 

Remember we are only stewards, not 
proprietors. 

Much given — much required, v. 48. 

Wisdom is promised if we ask ( Jas. i:5, 
6), so that we may be men that have un- 
derstanding of the times to know what 
Israel ought to do. I Chron. xii:32. 
Sanctified common sense. "Filled with 
the knowledge of His will in all wisdom 
and spiritual understanding." Col. i:9- 

Singleness of heart. 

Steadiness of eye and aim. 

Steadfastness of purpose. 

"Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always 
abounding in the work of the Lord, foras- 
much as ye know that your labor is not in 
vain in the Lord." I Cor. xv:5S. 



Their reward. Shall be made rulers, 
vs. 4 2 , 44- 

Therefore we must know the Master's 
will, and do it. v. 47. 

"Teach me to do Thy will" Ps. cxliii: 
10. 

"Lord, what wilt Thou have me to 
do ?" Acts ix:6. 

"Grant that we may both perceive and 
know what things we ought to do and 
also may have grace and power faithfully 
to fulfil the same." 

'Whose I am, and whom I serve." 
Acts xxvii:23. 

" Him with whom we have to do." 
Heb. iv.13. 

"One is your Master, even Christ." 
Matt, xxiii'8. 

W. H. Dawson. 



WORK. 



Mark i:i6, 17; II Tim. ii: 1 5 ; II Tim. 

iii:i6-i7; I Sam. xvii;38, 40; I Cor. 1:27, 

28; I Sam. xvii:49; Judges xx:i6; I 

Chron. xii:i, 2; Actsivi2; Esther iv:i4. 

G. B. Bradbury. 



THE CHRISTIAN AT WORK. 

Acquire a spiritual knowledge of all 
parts of the Word, and learn how to 
"rightly divide it." 

Learn by questioning, the spiritual 
condition of the person you deal with 
Be thorough. 

Find readily and explain clearly from 
your open Bible, a few apt texts. 

Always hold up Christ as the only and 
all-sufficient Saviour. Work with the Holy 
Ghost. 

Pray rather than argue. Use as much 
as possible the very words of Scripture. 

Be earnest and urgent for an immediate 
decision. II Tim. iii:i6, 17. 

SOME CLASSES MET WITH ! 

I. The self righteous and careless. 
"No fear, God is just, I never did any- 
thing very bad; will take my chances." 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



127 



John vi: 29; I Cor. xvi:22; Gen. vi:5; Jer. 
xvii:9; Rom. iii:io-2i; I John i:io. 

2. Skeptic. "Peculiar, can't believe; 
think for myself , etc. " Ps. xiv:i; Rom. 
1:21, 22, 28; Rom. ili : 3 ; II Thess. ii:io; 
John iii:36; I John v. 10. 

3. Doubting Christians. "Hope, try, 
no one can be sure." Stop hoping and 
trying, and "trust." I John v:i, 13; 
John v:24; vi:47; x:2S; Rom. viii:3i- 

39- 

4. Deceived Formalist. ' ' Belong to 
the Church." John iii:5-S; Rom. ii: 28, 
29; Gal. vius; II Tim. iii:5; Matt, vii: 
22,23. . 

5. Inconsistencies of Professors, 
"Hypocrites — as good as they — if I can't 
be better, etc." Matt. vii:i-3. John xxi: 
22: Rom. ii:i-9; xiv:4, 12; Jas. iv:i2; 
Jude 14-16. 

6. Backsliders. Prov. xiv:i4; Jer. iii: 
22; Mai. iii:7; Hos. xiv:4; xi:S; David 
and Peter. 

7. Deeply Convicted and Despondent. 
Isa. i:iS; xliii:25; xliv:22; Rom.v:6; 
I Pet. ii:24; I John i. 7; I Tim. i: 1 5-17; 
Heb. vii 125; viii:i 2. 

8. "So many things to Give Up." Re- 
ceive the Lord Jesus Christ first. John i: 
12; Mark viii:35-37; Phil. iii:7-Q ; Luke 
xviii:2 2; Rom. viii:i6-iS. 

9. How to Believe. Rom. x:io; Acts 
viii:37; John iii:4-:8; v:24; Rev. xxii: 
17. 

10. "If I Felt, etc." Isa. xlv:22; 
Rom. v:i; iv:5. Feeling three times, 
faith three hundred times in the N. T. 
A matter of faith and fact, rather than 
feeling. 

11. " Fear I can't Hold Out, have 
tried." Isa. xli:i3; Eph. iii:2o; Phil. i:6; 
John x:27-29, II Tim. i:i2; Jude 24. 

12. "Not to-night." Gen. vi:3; Prov. 
xxvii:i; xxix:i; Matt, xxi v 148-5 1; Luke 
xii:2o; II Cor. vi:2; Heb. ili: 15 ; Jas. iv: 
13-17. 

Rev. E. P. Marvin. 



QUALIFICATIONS FOR CHRIS- 
TIAN WORKERS. 

1. Assurance. Luke x:2o; II Cor. iv: 
13, 14; Jchniii:n; John iv:42; II Cor. 
v:i, 9, 10, n; Acts xxii: 1 4, 15; II Tim. 
in, 12; II Cor. 1:3-7; I J onn iv:i3, 14; 
I Cor. ii: 1 2, 13. 

2. Love. I Cor. xiii; I Thess. iii: 12; 
I Cor. xiv:i; I Johniv:7-i6. 

3. Hunger for the Salvation of Souls. 
John iii: 16; Rom. ix:i-3; Matt. xxiii:37, 
Rom. x:i; Luke xix:4i, 42; II Cor. xii: 
14 15; Acts xx:i8-2i, 26, 27; Phil. i:8; 
Rom. i : 1 1 - 1 5 ; I Thess. ii:7, 8. 

4. A longing to reach the neglected. 
Mark vi:34; Luke xix:io; Lukev:3i,32, 
Rom. xv:2o, 21; Luke xv:7; Jas. ii:i-9- 

5. Prayer fulness. Mark ix:2g; John 
12:21, 22; Luke iv:i5"i7; Acts i:4, 14; 
Luke iio-13; Acts iv:24"3i. 

6. Boldness. Acts iv:i3, 29, 31; Eph. 
vi:io-2o; Acts vii:5i-6o; I Thess. ii:2; I 
Cor. xvi:g-i4. 

7. Readiness to Suffer and to Wait. 
Matt. v:n, 12; Col. K24; Actsv:4i; II 
Thess. iii: 1 3; II Cor. iv:i; Jas. v:7, 8, 
10; Phil. 1:29; I Pet. ii. 19-25; Phil. ii:. 
17; I Pet. iv:i2-i9; Phil. iv:n-i3. 

8. Joy in the Lord. Neh. viikio; 
Phil, iv.4-7; II Cor. vii:4; I Thess. v: 
16; Phil. iii:3; Ps li:i2, 13. 

9. Humility. Matt. xx:25-28; Phil. i. 
15-18; Matt. xxiii:5, 12; Phil. ii:5-8; Acts 
xx:ig; Jude 9; Rom. xii:3, 10. 

10. Oneness of Heart and Soul with the 
Children of God. Acts iv:32, 33; Phil. 
iki-4; Rom. xvi:i7, iS. 

11. Discrimination. Matt. vii:6; Phil. 
i:io, marg. ; Matt. xii:2o; II Tim. ii: 
15- I Cor. ix:i9-22; Jude 20-23; I Cor. 
x:2 3> 3 2 » 33! Matt. v:43-47; I Cor. xiv: 
6-11,23-25. 

12. Tenderness. Ps. cxxvi:5, 6; Luke 
xix:4i, 42; II Cor. ii:4; Acts xx:i9, 31; 
Phil. iii:i8; Matt. xii:2o; Luke xiii.34, 

35- 

13. Blamelessness. Matt. vii:3~5 ; Phil. 



128 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



iii : r 7 ; Rom. ii:i7-24; Col. i;g-ii; Rom. 
xv:i4; I Thess. ii:io; Rom. xvi:io; Jas. 
iii:io-i3; Eph. v.11-18; I Pet. ii:ii, 12, 
15; Phil. ii:ic. 

14. Consecration and Devotedness. 
Luke v:io, 11; I Cor. ix:23-27; John xxi: 
18-22; II Cor. VH3-15; Acts xx:i8-27; 
Phil. i:ig-2i; Rom. xii:i, 2; Phil, ii 20, 
21 (with Matt. vi:24); I Cor. ii:2. 

Rev. C. M. Whittelsey. 



DAVID'S CRY. 

David's cry under a sense of sin. Ps. Ii. 

When he was in the wilderness. Ps. 
lxiii. 

When in the depths. Ps. cxxx. 

When in great domestic sorrow. Pc. iii. 

When hiding in the cave. Ps. lvii; 
cxlii. 

When they watched his house to kill 
him. Ps. lix. 

When dealing with his own soul. Ps. 
xxxvii. 

"Song of praise." Ps. cxlv. 

Soul experience. Ps. xhi-3. 

Verse 1. The Lord bending toward me 
and hearing my cry. 

Verse 2. Deliverance from a dark and 
dreadful past. 

Verse 2. Firm standing and established 
goings. 

Verse 3. The new song — the singer 
and the teacher. 

Verse 3. Open testimony and its blessed 
result. 

I am not what I ought to be. 

I am not what I might be. 

I am not what I wish to be. 

I am not what I hope to be. 

But, through grace, I am not what I 
once was. 

Rev. C. G. Baskerville, M. A 



"A MAN IN CHRIST." 
II Cor. xii:2. 

Let me count up some of the treasures 
I have in Him — 



1. A life that can never be forfeited. 
John x:28. 

2. A relationship which can never be 
broken. Gal. iii:26. 

3 Righteousness which can never be 
tarnished II Cor. v:2l. 

4. A peace which can never be de- 
stroyed. Eph. ii : 1 4.. 

5. An acceptance which can never be 
questioned. Eph. i:6. 

6. An inheritance which can never 
fade. I Pet. 1:4. 

7. A title which can never be disputed. 
Rev v:c>. 

Out of Christ — my position by nature. 
In Christ — my position by grace. 
For Christ — my blessed privilege. 
With Christ — my bright hope. 

Thou, O Christ, art all I want; 
More than all in Thee I find. 

Rev. C. G Baskerville, M. A. 



SANCTIFICATION. 
Ps. xxxix:i. 

1. Shall we continue in sin that grace 
may abound? Rom. vi:i; Rom. vi:2. 

2. Shall we sin because we are not un- 
der the law? Rom. vi:i5; Jer. xliv:4. 

3. Does God require us to be holy ? I 
Thess. iv:3; I Thess. iv:7. 

4. What reason has God given us fo? 
this? I Pet. i:i6; Heb. xii:i4; Rom. 
viii.13; Ps. xciii:5. 

5. How can we become holy? Rom. vi: 
8; Rom. vi:ii; Rom. vi:i4; Ezek. xviii: 
30, 31; Ezek. xxxvi:25, 26, 27. 

Anon. 



" I SAID I WILL TAKE HEED 
UNTO MY WAYS." 

Ps. xxxix:i. 

Take heed what ye hear. Mark iv.24. 

Take heed how ye hear. Lukeviii:iS. 

Take heed that the light that is in 
thee be not darkness. Luke xi:35. 

Take heed that ye be not deceived. 
Luke xxi:8. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



T29 



Take heed to yourselves. Mark xiii:g. 

Take heed, and beware of covetous- 
ness. Luke xii:i> 

Take heed lest this liberty of yours 
become a stumbling block to them that 
are weak. I Cor viii.9. 

Take heed ye be not consumed one 
of another. Gal. v:i5- 

Take heed that you do not your alms 
before men. Matt. vi:i. 

Take heed and beware of the leaven 
of the Pharisees. Matt. xvi:6. 

Take heed that ye do not despise one 
of these little ones. Matt. xviii:io. 

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in 
any of you an evil heart of unbelief, 
Heb. iii:i2. 

Take heed, regard not iniquity. Job 
xxxvi:2i. [vii:4. 

Take heed and be quiet, fear not. Isa. 

Take heed every one of his neighbor. 
Jer. ix:4. 

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the 
doctrine. I Tim. iv:i6. 

Take heed to the ministry thou hast 
received. Col iv.17. 

Let every man take heed how he build- 
eth (on Christ, the foundation). I Cor. 
iii:io. 

Wherefore, let him that thinketh he 
standeth take heed lest he fall. I Cor. 
x:i2. 

Therefore we ought to give the more 
earnest heed to the things which we have 
heard, lest at any time we should let 
them slip. Heb. ii:i. 



ADOPTION. 

1. Hoiv shall I put thee among the 
children? 

Jer. iii:ig; II Cor. vi.17, 18; Gal. iv: 
4, 5; I Pet. r.23; John iii:5. 

2. Horo shall ive know the childreit of 
God? 

Rom.viii:i4; Johnviii:42; IJohniv.7; 
v:i; Gal. v:24; I John iii:i4; Zech. iii:8; 
John xviig; Isa. viikiS. 

9 



3. What tire the privileges of the sons 
of God? 

Rom. viii :i 5, 16, 17, 21, 26. Gal. iv: 
6, 7; I John iii:2; John xvii:9; Heb. xii: 
6, 7. Ps. lxxxix:30-33. 

Anon. 



THE "SHALL NOTS" OF 
JOHN'S GOSPEL. 

THE BELIEVER. 

Shall not come into condemnation, 
John v:24. 

Shall not walk in darkness. John viii: 
12. 

Shall never hunger. John vr.35. 

Shall never thirst. John iv. 14. 

Shall not be plucked out of Christ's 
hand. John x:28. 

Shall not perish. John iii : 1 5 . 

Shall never die. John xi:26. 

READINGS IN TIMOTHY. 

THE WORD 

Is called: 

1. The Word of God. I Tim. iv:5. 

2. The words of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

I Tim. vi:3- 

3. Sound words. II Tim. K13. 

4. Wholesome words. I Tim. vi:3, 

5. Words of faith. I Tim. iv:6. 

6. The word of truth. II Tim. ii: 1 5. 

THE TESTED BELIEVER 

Has a — 

Sound mind. II Tim. i:7- 

Sound doctrine. II Tim. iv:3; I Tim. 
i:io. 

Is— 

Sound in the faith. Titus i:9. 

Sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 

II Tim. ii:2. 
Uses- 
Sound speech. Titus ii:8. 
Sound words. II Tim. i:i3. 

THE "GOOD" THINGS. 

1. Good minister. I Tim. iv:6. 

2. Good doctrine. I Tim. iv:6. 

3. Good behavior. I Tim. iii:2. 



130 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



4. Good 

5. Good 

6. Good 

7. Good 

8. Good 

9. Good 
10 Good 

11. Good 

12. Good 

13. Good 



report. I Tim. iii : 7. 
degree. I Tim. iii :i3. 
profession. I Tim. vi:i2. 
confession. I Tim. vi:i3. 
conscience. II Tim. vi:ig 
foundation. I Tim. vi:ig. 
works. I Tim vi:i8. 
soldier. II Tim. ii 13. 
warfare. I Tim. i:i8. 
fight of faith. II Tim. iv:7 
Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 



CHRIST AND THE CHRISTIAN. 

CHRIST. 

Thou art My Son; this day have I be- 
gotten thee. Heb. r.5. 

How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth 
with the Holy Ghost and with power. 
Actsx:38. 

Him hath God the Father sealed. 
John vi:27. 

And Jesus being full of the Holy 
Ghost, returned from the Jordan, Luke 
iv:i. 

He was crucified through weakness, 
yet he liveth by the power of God. II Cor. 
xiii:4. 

And that He was buried. I Cor. xv:4. 

And that He rose again the third day, 
according to the Scriptures. I Cor. xv:4. 

He was received up into heaven, and 
sat on the right hand of God. Mark 
xvi:ig. 

And unto them that look for Him, 
shall he appear the second time without 
sin unto salvation. Heb. ix:28. 

CHRISTIAN. 

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the 
Christ, is begotten of God. 1 John v:i. 

Now he which stablisheth us with you 
in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. 
II Cor. i:2i. 

After that ye believed, ye were sealed 
with the Holy Spirit of promise. Eph. 

i:i3- 

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is 



excess, but be filled with the Spirit. 
Eph. v:i8. 

I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless 
I live. Gal. ii:20. 

Therefore we are buried with Him by 
baptism into death. Rom. vi:4. 

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek 
those things which are above. Col. iii:i. 

And hath made us sit together in heav- 
enly places in Christ Jesus. Eph. ii:6. 

When Christ, who is our life, shall ap- 
pear, then shall ye also appear with Him 
in glory. Col. iii :5 . 

Rev. Geo F. Pentecost. 

BANKING HINTS FOR BELIEV- 
ERS. 

Believers are unspeakably richer than 
most of them are aware, and it would be 
well for them to adopt a few practical 
hints about the use of their riches for the 
new year, such as the following: 

1 . Open a savings account according 
to Matt. vi:20, 21. 

2. Make use of the check book men- 
tioned in II Pet. i:.j.; II Cor. i:20. 

3. Remember the essential conditions 
of the acceptance of all checks on the 
bank. Phil. iv:6 and Matt. xxi:22, 24. 

4. Never forget that there are always 
heavy balances to your credit. See Phil. 
iv:ig; Ps. lxxxiv:ii 1. c. ; Eph. iii:2o; 
Rom. viii:32. 

5. How others may become rich also. 
Matt. vi:33. Rev. C. A. Cook. 

"MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY ALL 
YOUR NEED." 

P artakers of the Divine nature. II Pet. 

i:4. 
R esting in His love. Ps. xxxvii:7 f. c. ; 

Zeph. iii: 1 7. 
Enjoying His favor. Prov. iii:4. 
S eparated from the world. II Cor. 

vi:i7, iS. 
E ntering within the veil. Heb. vhig; 

Eph, ii:6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



131 



N othing shall separate. Rom. viii: 

38, 29- 

C ommunion with the Invisible. Eph. 

iii:i7-i9- 
E verlasting life— eternal union. John 
x-28; xvii:2i. 

P owerful to keep. Jude 24. 

R estraining us from sin. Gen. xx:6. 

verruling all things for our good. 

Rom. viii:28. 
T eaching us His will. Ps. xxxii:8. 
E ffectually working out our salvation. 

Job xxxiii:29, 30. 
C ontending with him that contendeth 

with us. Isa. xlix:25. 
T enderly leading us. Ps. cxxxix :24, 10. 

1 nstructing and guiding. Ps. xxxii:8. 
O verthrowing our enemies. Joshua 

xxiii:io. 
N ear us at all times. Heb. xiii:5, I.e. 

P erforming all He has promised. 

Rom. iv:2i. 
R eady to give "whatsoever" we ask. 

John xiv:i3, 14. 

mnipotent omnipresent omnis- 

cient. Matt. xxviii:i8; Ps. cxxxix: 
12; Prov. xv:3. 
V igilant in behalf of all] who serve 
Him. II Chron. xvi:9. 

1 nexhaustible is His storehouse. Eph. 

iii:2o. 
S upplying all our need. Phil. iv:i9. 
I nheritors of His kingdom hereafter. 

John xiv:2, 3. 
O ne with Him now. John xvii:23. 
N o want to them that love Him. Ps. 

xxxiv:io. Katie Clark. 



YIELD YOUR MEMBERS. 
Rom. vi:ig. 

LIFE, TONGUE, MOUTH. 

I. The lips of the wicked are: 

(a) Lying. Prov. xii:22. 

(b) Flattering. Ps. xii:2, 3. 

(c) Sharp. Ps. lix:;. 

(d) Yenomous. Ps. cxl:3. 



(e) Unclean. Isa. vr.5 

(f) Hasty. Prov. xxix:2o. 

2. The lips of the righteous are: 

(a) Pure. Mai. ii:6; I Pet. iii:io. 

(b) Truthful. Prov. xii:i9. 

(c) Loving. Eph. iv: 1 5. 

(d) Strengthening. Prov. x:2i. 

(e) Joyful. Ps. lxiii:5; cxix:i7i. 

(f) Wise. Ps. xxxvii:30. 

(g) Gracious. Eccl. x:i2. 
(h) Pleasant. Prov. xv:26. 

3. To whom do our life belong? The 
wicked say, Ps. xii:4. God says, Luke 
xxi:i5. 

4. Our words will be useless unless 
coming from the heart. Prov. xiv.23; 
Isa. xxix:i3; Ezek. xxxiii:3i; Matt. xv:8; 
xii:34. 

5. The need of restraining our words. 
Ps. xvii.3; xxxix:i. 

6. The power there is in the tongue for 
good. Prov. xvi:2i; xx:i5; Ps. viii:2 — 
or evil. Prov. xvi:27. James, chap. iii. 

7. How is it made powerful for good? 
Isa. vi:6, 7; Acts ii: 1-4 ; Jer. i:9; com- 
pare with Jer. xx:9. 

8. Words are part of the fruit God ex~ 
pects. Isa. Iviing; Hosea xiv:2; Ps. 
cxix:io8; Heb. xiii: 15 ; Rom. xv:6. 

9. Prayers. Ps. II : 1 5 ; cxli:3; xix:i4; 
cxx:2. 

10. The example of the Lord when re- 
viled. I Pet. ii:22, 23; Mark xv:3, 5. 
Full of grace even in His speech. John 
i: 14 ; Ps. xlv:2; Luke iv:22; John vii:46. 

11. Practical texts. Ps. cxxxix:4; Col. 
iii : 1 7 ; II Cor. iv:i3; Eph. iv:3i; I Pet. 
ii : t ; Col. iv:6; I Tim. iv: 2; Mai. iii:i6. 

Miss Dora Allan. 



THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. 

1. Things to be thankful for. I Thess. 
v:i8; Isa. xlviii:2o; Ps. xxviii:7; Luke 
xv:24; I Pet. iv:i2, 13; Dan. vi:22; I 
Tim. i: 1 2; Col. i:i2. 

2. Ground of Thanksgiving. I Cor. 
xv:57; Gal. vr.14. 



132 



NOTES FOR EIBLE READINGS. 



3. Profit of thanksgiving. Ps. xcii:i; 
I Tim. iv:i5; Ps. cxix:54; Luke xvii:i8, 
19; Acts xvi:25, 26. 

4. The fellowship of praise. Luke 
xix:37, 38; Rev. vii:n, 12. 

H. MOOREHOUSE. 



SEVEN ATTITUDES OF THE 
BELIEVER. 

I. Leaning-. John xiii:23, suggests: 

1. Intimacy. 

2. Dependence. 

3. Confidence. 

4. Safety. 

II. Lying Down. Ps. xxiii:2; Ezek. 
xxxiv:i4, suggest: 

1. Rest. 

2. Peace. 

3. Assurance. 

III. Sitting. Deut. xxxiii:3; Luke 
viii:35: x:3g, suggest: 

1. Listening. 

2. Learning. 

3. Admiring. 

IV. Standing. Eph. iv:i3, 14; Phil. 
iv:i, suggest: 

1. Firmness. 

2. Readiness for work. 

V. Walking. See the "seven walks" 
in Eph; Phil. iv:i, suggest: 

1. Progress. 

2. Steady work. 

VI. Running. I Cor. ix:24, 26: Heb. 
xii:i, suggest: 

1. Eagerness. 

2. Striving. 

VII. Mounting Up. Isa. XL31; I 
Thess. iv.17, suggest: 

1. Glory. 

2. Exultation. 

Rev. John C. Hill. 



GRACE. 

Its sources. John i:i4-i7; Rom. v:i5; 
I Cor. i:3, 4. 

All grace comes from God. I Pet. v:io. 

To whom does He offer grace? Matt. 
xxi:3i; Hosea xiii:g; John viii:4-i2. 



Not of works. Eph. ii:8, 9; II Tim. 
i:9; Rom. xi:6. 

It bringeth salvation. Titus 11:11-14. 

We are justified freely by His grace. 
Titus iii:7; Rom. iii:24. 

Sin reigned unto death, but grace unto 
eternal life. Rom. v:20, 21; Rom. vi: 
1, 2. 

We " are not under law, but under 
grace. Rom. vr.14, 15. 

The difference between law and grace. 
Deut. xxi:i8; Luke xv:i2 24. 

How are we to get it? Heb. iv:i6. 

His grace sufficient at all times. II 
Cor. ix:S; II Cor. xii:q. 

Who have it more freely? Eph. vi:24; 
James iv:6. 

We are to sing with grace in our hearts. 
Col. iii:i6. Anon. 

CONTRASTED CONDITIONS. 

Eph. chap. ii. 

we are changed by conversion, 
how? 

Unconverted. 

V. 1. Dead in Sin. 

V. 2. Walking according to the spirit 
in the children of disobedience. 

V. 19. Strangers and foreigners. 

V. 12. Without Christ. 

V. 3. Fulfilling the desires of the 
flesh. 

V. 3. Children of wrath. 

V. 12. Without God. 

V. 12. No hope. 

Converted. 

V. 5. Quickened or alive in Christ. 

V. 10. Walking in good works. 

V. 13. Nigh to God. 

V. iS. Having access to God. 

V. 20. In the building with Christ. 

V. 6. In heavenly places with Christ. 

V. 21. A holy temple to the Lord. 

V. 19. Of God's household. 

V. 22. Habitation of God through the 
Spirit. 

V. 8. Saved by grace through faith. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



133 



What is the faith that saves? Faith 
combined with love and works. See 
James ii:2o, 21, 22; I Cor. xiii:2. Gal. 
v:6. 

Definition of faith. Heb. xii. 

Source of faith. Heb. xii:2. 

Necessity of faith. Heb. xi:6. 

Rewards of faith. Rom. v.1-3. Peace. 
Matt. xxi:22. Receive what we ask for. 
II Tim. iv:7 and 8. A crown of right- 
eousness. 

Mrs. Clara Smith Colton. 



"THE GOD OF GLORY" AND "HIS 

DIVINE PURPOSES TO HIS 

CHILDREN" ARE 

SEEN 

1. As His sons, Christ is engaged to 
bring us to glory. Heb. ii: 10. 

2. "We are to appear with Him in 
glory. Col. iii:4. 

3. We are called to His kingdom and 
glory. I Thess. ii: 12. 

4. God is going to make known the 
riches of His glory in us, the vessels of 
His mercy, which He hath before pre- 
pared unto glory. Rom. ix:23. 

5. Our present sufferings are not wor- 
thy to be compared with the glory that 
shall be revealed to us. Rom. viii : 18. 

6. Our bodies are to be raised in glory. 
I Cor. xv:43. 

7. The salvation which is in Jesus 
Christ is with eternal glory. II Tim.ii:io. 

8. We are called to His eternal glory. 
I Pet. v:io. 

9. We are called to be partakers of 
the glory that shall be revealed. I Pet. 
v:i. 

10. We now rejoice with joy unspeak- 
able/ and full of glory. I Pet. i:8. 

11. It is to be the eternal weight of 
glory. II Cor. iv:i7. 

12. Our bodies are to be fashioned like 
unto His body of glory. Phil. iii:2i. 

13. God has called us to glory and vir- 
tue. II Pet. i:3. 



14. If we suffer with Him we shall be 
glorified together. Rom. viii: 17. 

15. Christ is coming to be glorified in 
His saints. II Thess. i:io. 

16. Christ will present us to Himself — 
a Church glorious. Eph. v:27. 

17. God's purpose to us is: Whom He 
justified, them He also glorified. Rom. 
viii: 30. 

18. We are called to the obtaining of 
the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. II 
Thess. ii:i4. 

W. H. 



THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST'S 
SACRIFICE. 

Heb. ix:26; I John iii : 5 ; I Pet. ii:24; 
Heb ii:i4; I John iii :S ; Heb. ii : 1 5 ; Gal. 
i:4; Titus ii:i4; Heb. xiii: 12; II Cor. v: 
15; Rom. xiv:g. 

C. E. Dyer. 



FOURFOLD "GOOD CHEER" OF 
THE LORD JESUS. 

1. Divine forgiveness. Matt. ix:2. 

2. Divine deliverance from danger. 
Mark vi:46-5i. 

3. Divine protection as His witnesses. 
Acts xxiii:ii. 

4. Divine peace, quietness, assurance, 
and victory. John xvi:33. 



VERY PERSONAL. 

1. Reckon yourselves dead to sin. 
Rom. vi:ii. . 

2. Yield yourselves to God. Rom. vi: 

l 3- 

3. Arm yourselves. I Pet. iv:i. 

4. Keep yourselves from idols. I John 
v:2i. 

5. Build up yourselves. Jude 20. 

6. Keep yourselves in the love of God. 
Jude 21. 

7. Do not forsake the assembling of 
yourselves together. Heb. x:25. 

W. H. 



134 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



WHAT WE ARE "MADE" IN 
CHRIST. 

i. Made righteous in Him. Rom. v: 
19; II Cor. v:2i. Our righteousness. 

2. Made free in Him. Gal. v:i. Our 
liberty. . 

3. Made one with Him. I Cor. xii: 
13. Our union. 

4. Made nigh by His blood. Eph. ii: 
13. Our nearness. 

5. Made accepted in Him. Eph. i:6. 
Our acceptance. 

6. Made to sit with Him. Eph. ii:6. 
Our position. 

7. Made heirs with Him. Titus iii:7. 
Our inheritance. 

8. Made kings and priests in Him. 
Rev. i:5. Our dignity. 

9. Made meet for the. inheritance. Col. 
i:i2. Our prospect. 

10. Made joyful in Him. Ezra vi:22. 
Our rejoicing. 

it. Made great in Him. Ps. xviii:35. 
Our greatness, 

12. Made strong in Him. II Cor. xii: 
9. Our strength. 

13. Made comformable to His death. 
Phil. iii:io. Our suffering. 

14. Made wisdom, righteousness, sanc- 
tification and redemption in Him. I Cor. 



Our glorying. 



F. E. M. 



UNION WITH CHRIST. 

BELIEVERS ARE 

Crucified with Christ. Rom. vi:6. 

Dead with Christ. Rom. vi:8. 

Buried with Him. Rom. vi:4. 

Planted together in the likeness of His 
death. Rom. vi:5. 

Planted together in the likeness of His 
resurrection. Rom. vi:5. 

Quickened together. Eph. ii : 5 . 

Raised up together. Eph. ii:6. 

Sitting together in heavenly places. 
Eph. ii:6. 

Living together. I Thess. v:io. 



Working together. Mark xvi:20. 
Suffering together. Rom. viii: 1 7. 
Glorified together. Rom. viii: 17. 

H. G. 



THE WORK OF FATHER, SON, 
AND HOLY SPIRIT. 

IN SONSHIP. 

I. How God makes Sons. 

1. By foreordination. Eph. i:5, R. V. 

2. By redemption. Gal. iv:4, 5. 

3. By regeneration. John i: 12, 13. 

4. By faith. Gal. iii:26. 

II. Some of the Blessings, present and 
future, of Sonship. 

1. Possession of the Spirit. Rom. viii: 
14, 15- 

2. Witness of the Spirit. Rom. viii: 16. 

3. Fellowship with the Father. Rom. 
viii: 1 5 ; Gal. iv:6. 

4. Liberty. Gal. iv:7. 

5. An heir of God. Rom. viii:i7;, 
Eph. i:ii-i4. 

6. A joint heir with Christ. Rom. viii. 
17. 

7. Manifestation in glory. Rom. viii: 
19-23; I John Hi: 1, 2. 

III. Some of the proofs of Sonship. 

1. Love to enemies. Matt. v:43-48. 

2. Likeness to God. Eph. v::. 

3. A forgiving Spirit. Matt. vi:9-i5, 

4. A meek and quiet Spirit. Phil, ii: 

14, 15. 

5. Avoidance of unequal yokes. II 
Cor. vi:i4; vii:i. 

6. Purity of life. I John iii:2, 3. 

7. The Father's tender discipline. 
Heb. xii:5-u. 

IV. The Father's Work in Sonship. 

1. He foreordains. Eph. i:v. 

2. He gave them to Christ. John xvii: 
6; Heb. ii : 13. 

3. He gave His Son to redeem them. 
Gal. iv:3-5. 

4. He made Christ perfect through 
sufferings in order to bring them to glory. 
Heb. ii:io. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



•^35 



5. He renews them by the exercise of 
His sovereign will John i;i:, 13. James 
i:i8. 

6. He calls them Sons. I John iii:i. 

7. He makes them His heirs. Rom. 
viii: 1 7 ; Gal. iii::g; iv:7. 

V. The Son's Work in Sonship. 

1. He suffered for them Heb. ii:io. 

2. He redeemed them. Gal. iv:4-6. 

3. He renews them. John i;i 2, 13; 
I John v.:. 

4. He unites them to Himself. Heb 
iino-14. 

5. He makes them heirs with Himself. 
Rom. viii: 17. 

VI. The Spirit's Work in Sonship. 

1. He dwells in them. Rom. viii:i5; 
Gal. iv.6. 

2. He bears witness to sonship. Rom. 
viii:i6. 

3. He gives the filial spirit to sons. 
Rom. viii: 1 5 ; with Gal. iv:7. 

4. He seals sons. II Cor. i:22; Eph. 
i : 1 3, 14; iv:30. 

5. He leads sons. Rom. viii:i4. 

6. He gives the first fruits of redemp- 
tion even now. Rom. viii: 19-25; with II 
Cor. v:5, 6. 

7. He will raise the bodies of the sons 
of God. Rom. viii: 11. 

"Wherefore come out from among 
them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 
and touch not the unclean; and I will re- 
ceive you, and will be a Father unto you, 
and ye shall be my sons and daughters, 
saith the Lord Almighty." Isa. Hi: n, 
12; II Sam. vii:i4; II Cor. vi:i7, 18. 
J. Hixon Irving. 



THE BELIEVER'S SEPARATION 
. FROM THE WORLD. 

IV hy must we be separate? 

1. We cannot serve two masters Matt. 
vi:24; James iv:4. 

2. We belong to Christ. 

Not our own. I Cor. vi: 19-20. 
Children of God. I John iii:2. 



Christ's body. I Cor. xii:2y. 
His witnesses. Luke xxiv:48. 
His ambassadors. II Cor. v:2~. 

3. He commands us. 

Not fashioned to this world. Rom. 
xii:2. 

Come out and be separate. . II Cor. 
vi: 17. 

Love not the world. I John ii: 1 5. 

4. We should be like Him, 

He was separate. Heb. vii:26. 

Pie was not of the world. John xvi:i6. 

5. Truly living we overcome the world. 

6. Truly working we are separnte. II 
Tim. ii:4. 

Why does He separate us? 

1. To bring us near to Himself. Num. 
xvi:g. 

2. Forourwork. Acts xiii:2. 
How shall we separate ourselves? 

1. Forsake all. Luke xiv.33. 

2. Deny ourselves. Mark viii:34. 

3. Destroy every hindrance. Mark ?.x: 



43- 
4- 
iii:2. 



Set our mind on things above. Coi. 



5. Do all to His glory. Col. lii : 1 7. 
Results of separation. 

1. We shall live with Him. I Thess. 
v:io. 

2. We shall work with Him. II Cor. 
vi:i. 

3. We shall suffer with Him. Rom. 
viii: 1 7. 

4. We shall sit in heavenly places. 
Eph. ii:vi. 

5. We shall be transformed into His 
image. II Cor. iii:i8. 

6. Made sons and daughters. II Cor. 
v:i7, 18. 

7. Made joyful. Ezravi:22. 

8. Securing greater assistance. Ezra 
vi:22. 

9. We shalt find brethren. Neh. x::\8, 
29. 

10. We shall receive far more. Ma,rk 



x:2g, 30. 



Wm. P. Taylor. 



136 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



SEVEN THINGS THE BELIEVER 

SHOULD REMEMBER ABOUT 

THE ELESH. 

1. That he is under no obligation to it. 
We are debtors, not the flesh. Rom. viii: 
12; viii:8; Gal. vi:S; Rom. viii:6, margin. 
Rom: vii:-5; viii:7, margin. 

2. That he must not make it his com- 
panion. Walk not after the flesh. Rom. 
viii:4; Eph. iv:ig; Phil, iii: 19; Gen. xiii.9. 

3. That he must not make any allow- 
ance for it. Make not provision for the 
flesh. Rom. xiii:i4. 

4. He must not give it any opportunity 
to show itself. Use not liberty for an oc- 
casion to the flesh. Gal. v:i3. 

5. That he must not trust it under any 
circumstances. Eor we have no confi- 
dence in the flesh. Phil, iii : 3 . 

6. That he must not expect any good 
thing from it. In my flesh dwelleth no 
good thing. Rom. viiiS. 

Jt is sinful. Rom. viii:3. 

Unclean. Gal. v:ig. 

Filthy. II Cor. vii:i. 

Corrupt. Gen. vi:i2; Job xiv:i4. 

y. He must look upon it as a dead 
thing. And they that are Christ's have 
crucified the flesh. Gal. v:24; Rom. 
vii:-"!4. 

May the Lord Jesus grant that we may 
all through the Spirit mortify the deeds of 
the body. Rom. viii: 12. 

And not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 
Gal. v:i6, R. A. Orr. 



THE PURPOSE OF GOD. 

I. — IN CHRIST. 

By Him to reconcile all things unto 
Himself. Col. i:20. 

That He should give eternal life to as 
many as Thou hast given Him. John 
xvii'2. 

That He might destroy the works of 
the devil. I John iii:8. 

That also He should gather together in 
one the children of God that were scat- 
tered abroad. John xi:52. 



That in the dispensation of the fulness 
of times He might gather together in one 
all things in Christ. Eph. i:io. 

II.— IN THE CHURCH. 

That we should be to the praise of His 
glory. Eph. i:i2. 

That we should be holy and without 
blame before Him in love. Eph. 114. 

That they all may be one. John xvii: 
21. 

That He might present it to Himself a 
glorious church. Eph. v.27. 

That now unto the principalities and 
powers in heavenly places might be 
known, by the Church, the manifold wis- 
dom of God. Eph. iii: 10. 



THE POWER OF GOD. 

I. — IN CHRIST. 

Christ the power of God. I Cor. i:24. 

By whom also He made the worlds. 
Heb. 1:2. 

Upholding all things by the word of 
His power. Heb. i:3. 

Thou hast given Him power over all 
flesh. John xvii:2. 

All power is given unto Me in heaven 
and in earth. Matt. xxviii:i8. 

The mighty God. Isa. ix:6. 

II. — IN THE CHURCH. 

The exceeding greatness of His power 
to usward who believe. Eph. i:ig. 

The power that worketh in us. Eph. 
iii: 20. 

I give unto you power. . . .over all the 
power of the enemy. Luke x: 19. . 

Strengthened with all might according 
to His glorious power. Col. i:ii. 

Be strong in the Lord, and in the 
power of His might, Eph. vi:io. 

I can do all things through Christ 
which strengthened me. Phil. iv:ij. 



THE PLEASURE OF GOD. 

I. — IN CHRIST. 

Mine elect, in whom my soul delight- 
eth. Isa. xlii:i. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



137 



A sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling 
savour. Eph. v:2. 

My beloved Son, in whom I am well 
pleased. Matt, iii : 1 7- 

It pleased the Father that in Him 
should all fulness dwell. Col. i: 19. 

The pleasures of the Lord shall pros- 
per in His hand. Isa. liii:io. 

II. — IN THE CHURCH. 

The Lord taketh pleasure in His peo- 
ple. Ps. cxlix:4. 

My delights were with the sons of men. 
Prov. viii:3i. 

Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tir- 
2ah; comely as Jerusalem; terrible as an 
army with banners. Cant. vi:4. 

So shall the king greatly desire thy 
beauty. Ps. xlv:ii. 

How fair is thy love. Cant. iv:io. 

Enoch ... had this testimony, that he 
pleased God. Heb. xi:5. 



OUR JOINT HEIRSHIP WITH 
CHRIST. 

Christ is made heir of all things, Heb. 
i:2; and he makes us fellow heirs, Rom. 
viii: 1 7, of His unsearchable riches. Eph. 
iii : S. He not only bestows gifts like 
Pardon, Sealing, etc., but all his own 
blessings, graces, and riches that can be 
communicated. Surely we ought to ap- 
preciate above all price our partnership in 
the unsearchable riches of the Son ofGod. 

1. We share His perfect divine, un- 
created righteousness. Clothed in this, 
God sees no iniquity in us, and we are 
whiter than snow. Our justification is as 
perfect and secure as Christ's Himself. 
Num. xxiii.2"; Isa. i:iS; lxi:io; Jer.xxiii: 
6; Rom. viii:33 - . Phil. iii:g. 

2. We share with Him in the Sonship 
of God. As He is the Son of God, pre- 
eminently we are born of the Spirit, sons 
of God and His genuine brethren. Both 
are born into Sonship supernaturally. 
John i:i2, 13; Rom. viii:2o.; Gal. iv:5; I 
John iii : 1 -3. 



3. We share his sweet peace and tran- 
quility of soul. Isa. xxvi:3; John x i v: 
27; xvi:33; Phil, iv:;; Heb. vii:2. 

4. We share His life in its divine na- 
ture, as the hranch that of the vine, and 
the members that of the head. This is 
not Adamic or Angelic, but supernatural 
ana peculiar. Christ is the Bread, Foun- 
tain, and Prince of life. John x:28; I 
John v:ii, 12; II Pet. i:4. 

5. We share His knowledge of divine 
and eternal things, and especially of His 
glorious plans and purposes concerning 
His finished redemption in the New Cre- 
ation. Walking in His Fellowship. 

"We catch the sweet and heavenly hymn, 
That hails the New Creation." 

John xv:i5; xvi:i4, 15; xvii:8; Rev. 
xxiin-5. 

6. We share His pure, intense and in- 
finite love, not merely His own wonderful 
love, but equally that of the Father. 
John xv:q; xvi:2j; xvii:26. ' Wondrous 
fellowship." 

"So dear, so very dear to God, 

I can no dearer be: 
Fo>- in the person of His Son, 

I am as dear as He.' 1 

7. We share His pure and holy joy. 
John xv;ii; xvii:3; Matt. xxv:2i; Luke 
xv:6, 7. 

8. We share with Him his blessed, glo- 
rious and eternal home. He fits it up for 
His fellow heirs. John xiv:3; xvii:i4; 
Rom. viii:2r. 

9. We share for a time here in His re- 
jection and sufferings. This is a kind of 
sacramental cup until He comes. We 
share the cross before the crown. Rom. 
viii : 1 7 ; Col. i:24; Phil, iii : 10. 

10. Finally, we are destined to share in 
His eternal glory. Our bodies and spir- 
its will be perfectly conformed to His 
likeness, and we shall be crowned and 
glorified together. Our character, ca- 
reer, standing and destiny — all, are most 
closely and wonderfully linked to His, 
like that of the Bride and the Bridegroom. 



138 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



For this glorious consummation both are 
waiting. He waits for his fellow heirs to 
be crowned with Him. John xvii:22; I 
Johniii:2; Rev. iii:2i; Eph. v\2-]. 

Rev. E. P. Marvin. 



SINS WITHHOLDING GOOD 
FROM US. 

Jeremiah was a faithful servant of God; 
and he declared to his people the whole 
counsel of God. In one of his noble 
sermons he says to the people, chap. v:25, 
"Your iniquities have turned away these 
things, and your sins have withholden 
good things from you." How suggest- 
ive that is! How then does sin withhold 
good things from us? 

i. Sin cuts us off from the fountain of 
blessing. Isa. lix.2, f. c; Jer. ii.12, 13; 
xvii:i3; Micah iii:4; Jer. viii:i8. 

2. Sin changes our taste for, and our 
relish of good things. Rom. i:2i; Eph. 
iv:i8, 19; Jer. iv:22. 

3. Sin renders us unfit to receive bless- 
ings. Rom. i:24, 25; Matt. xxiii:37, 38. 

4. Sin keeps back blessing from us. 
Isa. lix:2, sec. cl. ; Jer. xvi:5; viiirg. 

5. Sin causes us to abuse even the 
good we receive. Jer. vii:io, 11; Rom. 
1:23. 

6. Sin brings spiritual death. Ezek. 
xxxiii:io; Rom. v:i2. 

Oh, how we should hate sin and turn 
away from it, and when it is upon us flee 
to the fountain of cleansing. I John i:g. 
Rev J. A. R. Dickson, B.D. 



SOWING AND REAPING. 

1. What we are to sow — 

The sower soweth the Word. Mark 
iv:i4. 

The seed is the Word of God. Luke 
viii:ii. 

Incorruptible seed — the Word of God. 

I Pet. i:23. 

2. When we are to sow — 

At all times — in season, out of season. 

II Tim. iv:2. 



In the morning and evening. Eccl. 
xi:6. 

3. Where we are to sow — 
Beside all waters. Isa. xxxii:20. 

In the wayside, rocky places, thorny 
ground, and on good ground. Matt. 
xiii:4-8. 

4. How we are to sow — 

(a) Bountifully. Prov. xxii:g: II Cor. 
ix:6. 

Scatter it. Prov. xi:24. 

(b) In humble dependence on God as 
to the result. 

God gives the increase. I Cor. hi. -7. 
Apart from Christ we can do nothing. 
John xv:5. 

5. We may not have the privilege of 
reaping the harvest of what we sow, but 
it will be reaped. Sow in tears — reaping 
in joy. Ps. cxxvi:5. 

Not return void. Isa. 1v:ii. 

One soweth, another reapeth. John 

iv:37- 

We may also be permitted to reap that 
which we have not sown. John iv:38. 

6. Both the sower and the reaper shall 
be rewarded, and share the joy. John 
iv:36. 

He that planteth, and He that watereth. 
I Cor. iii:8. 

A sure reward. Prov. xi:i8. 

He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear- 
ing precious seed, shall doubtless come 
again bringing his sheaves with him. Ps.. 
cxxvi:6. 

Alex. R. Saunders. 



THE SONG OF THE BELIEVER. 

He sings unto the Lord. Ps. lxxi:22 r 
23; xcv:i; xcvi:i, 2; cxlix:i; Isa. xliiuo; 
II Chron. xxx:2i, 1. c;; Eph. v:io,; Col. 
iii:i6, 1. c; Judges v:3. 

And it is a song of thanksgiving. Ps. 
xxviii:7; xl:3; lxix:30. 

He sings unto the Lord because He 
hath dealt bountifully with him. Ps. 
xiii:6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



*39 



lix 



Ps. 



He sings at the remembrance of His 
holiness. Ps xxx:4. 

He sings of His righteousness. Ps. 
li: 14 ; cxlv.i, 1. c. 

He sings of His power. Ps. xxr.13; 
lix:i6, f. c. 

He sings of His mercy. Ps. ci:i 
16, m. c. ; lxxxix:i. 

The Lord Himself is his song. 
cxviii;i4; Isa. xii:2; Ex. xv:2, f. c. 

Sorrow need not interrupt this song 
for the Lord giveth songs in the night 
Job xxxv : 10. 

In the night His song shall be with 
me. Ps. xlii:S. 

I will sing of mercy and judgment. 
Ps. ci:i, 

And they will be songs of deliverance. 
Ps. xxxii.7, 

Cannot our voice be heard here? In 
how many ways, and how often have we 
been delivered, and yet — Ps. lvi: 1 2, 13; 
lxxxvi ' 1 3 ; x xxi v : 4 : li v : 7. 

Anon. 



THE BELIEVER'S FELLOWSHIP. 

Truly our fellowship is with the Father 
and with His Son Tesus Christ. I Tohn 



In Death. He died unto sin once. 
Rom. vi-io. 

Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead 
indeed unto sin. Rom. vi:ii. 

In Resurrection. Christ was raised up 
from the dead by the glory of the Father. 
Rom. vi:4. 

Hath raised us up together. Eph. ii:6. 

/;/ life. I am He that liveth. Rev. 
i:i8. 

Because I live, ye shall live also. John 
xiviig.' 

In Title. He entered in once by His 
own blood. Heb. ix.12. 

We have redemption through His 
blood. Eph, 1:7. 

In Sons hip. This is my beloved Son. 
Matt. xvii:5. 



Now are we the sons of God. I John 
iii:2. 

In Heirship. Heir of all things. Heb. 
i:2. 

Joint heirs with Christ. Rom. viii:i7. 

In Righteousness. The Righteousness 
of God in Him. II Cor. v:2i. 

In Holiness. A Lamb without blem- 
ish and without spot. I Pet. i : 19. 

There is no spot in thee. Cant. iv:7. 

In Love. God is love. I John iv.16. 

The love of God is shed abroad in our 
hearts. Rom. v:5. 

In Power. Greater works than these 
shall ye do. because I go unto my Father. 
John xiv:i2. 

I can do all things through Christ 
which strengtheneth me. Phil. iv:i3. 

In Judgment. The Father. . . .hath 
committed all judgment unto the Son. 
John v:22. \ 

The saints shall judge the world. I 
Cor. vi:2. 

Psalm ii:g; Rev. ii:26: Rev. 



Father, glorify Thy name. 



In Rule. 
xix:i4, 15, 
In A im 

John xii:28. 

Wherefore, glorify God in your body 
and in your spirit, which are God's. I 
Cor. vi:20. 

hi Possession. All things that the 
Father hath are mine. John xvi:i5. 

All things are yours. I Cor. iii:2i. 
Anon. 



THE PRESENT PORTION OF 
BELIEVERS. 

Every believer stands before God now 
and forever forgiven all trespasses. Col. 

:I4: ":T3, 

Crucified with Christ. Rom. vi:6; Gal. 
ii:2o; vi:i4. 

This ends his standing in fallen Adam. 
Quickened, raised, and seated in heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus, Eph. li : 5 , 6; justi- 
fied from all things. Acts xiii.3§, 39; 
Rom. iv:3, ij, v:i. 



140 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Made meet to be a partaker of the in- 
heritance of the saints in light. Col. i:i2 
Made the righteousness of God in 
Christ Jesus. II Cor. v:2i; I Cor. i:30, 
Delivered from the power of darkness. 
Col. 1:13. 

Translated into the kingdom of God's 
dear Son. Col. i:i3. 

Accepted in the beloved. Eph. i:6. 

Saved. II Tim. i:g; Titus iii.5. 

Sealed with the Holy Spirit. Eph. i:i3; 
iv:3o; II Cor, i:22. 

Indwelt by the Holy Ghost. I Cor. 
vi:ig. 

Perfected forever. Heb. x:i4. 

Sanctified, Christ in glory being His 
sanctification. I Cor. i:3o; vi:ii; Heb. 
x:io; ii:io; John i:i6. 

A member of Christ's body, flesh, and 
bones; not a bone of him shall be broken 
was a word applied to the type. Eph. 
v:30. 

Blessed with all spiritual blessings in 
heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Eph. i:3 

Is kept by the power of God. I Pet. 1:5 

Every believer has eternal life, and can 
nevsr perish. John iii: x 5, 16; v:24; vi: 
47: x. 27-29. 

Is born of God, and so is God's child. 
John i:i3: I John iii: 1-3. 

Has Christ as his life. Col. iii*4; John 
xii:25; xiv:6. 

Has liberty to enter into the holiest. 
Heb. xiig. 

Has Christ as His High Priest to succor 
when tempted. Heb. ii:i8; i\M4-i6. 

Has Christ as his Advocate with the 
Eather if sin is committed (the term 
"Father" shows that relationship has not 
ceased although communion has been 
interrupted), and as he is faithful, the res- 
toration of all his own erring ones is thus 
pledged. I John ii:i, 2; John xiii:i-io. 
See the case of David. II Sam, xii:i-i4, 
Also that of Peter. Euke xxii:6i, 62; 
John xxi:i5-i7. 

Not only were the sins of every be- 



liever borne by Christ when on the cross, 
see Lev. xvi:20-22; Isa. liii:6; I Pet. ii: 
24; Heb. x: 12, but Christ was made sin 
for us by God. Their nature being bad, 
God has judged it and put it away from 
before him forever in the cross of Christ. 
Christ died, not only as the believer's 
Sin bearer, but as the believer's Represent- 
ative. Every believer has thus died — in 
God's sight, and therefore to faith also — 
and now lives in Christ, having Christ's 
standing before God. Christ in glory is 
thus the measure of each believer's ac- 
ceptance before God; for "He (God) hath 
made us accepted in the Beloved," sharers 
of his glory, John xvii:22. Loved by the 
Father as he is loved, John xvii:23. What 
manner of persons ought we to be in all 
holy conversation and godliness? Not our 
own, but bought with a priee. We are 
left here ready dressed for heaven, to 
serve our Deliverer and await his return to 
take us home. So his word to us is: 
"Let your loins be girded about, and your 
lights burning; and yourselves like unto 
men that wait for their Lord." Luke xii: 
35, 36. 

F. P. C. 



WHAT PAUL FOUND TO BE 
GRATEFUL FOR. 

For Jesus Christ. II Cor. ix:i5. 

For being placed in the ministry. I 
Tim. i:i2, 13. 

For gifts which qualified him for ser- 
vice. I Cor. xiv:i8, 19. 

For guidance in work, so that no 
ground for complaint could be made 
against him, nor his name used for party 
purposes. I Cor. i:i4, 15. 

For success which attended his preach- 
ing. I Thess. ii: 13. 

For liberty secured by many of his 
hearers. Rom. vi.17, 18. 

For grace imparted to them. I Cor. i:4. 

For faith manifested by their works. 
Rom. i:8. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



141 



For steadfast walk and growing faith 
II Thess. 1:3, 4. 

For brotherly love. Philemon iv:5. 

For fellowship of the saints. Philip 
pians 1:3-5. 

For sympathy extended him. Acts 
xxviii.15. 

P'or faithful and well-trained helpers. 
II Cor. viii:i6; II Tim. 1:3-5. 

For deliverance from dominion of sin. 
Rom. vii:24, 25. 

For continued success in his labors. 
II Cor. 11:14. 

For ultimate victory. I Cor. xv:55, 57. 

HIS ADVICE TO OTHERS. 

How to thank God. Heb. xiii: 15. 
Why to thank God. II Cor. iv;i5. 
When to thank God. Eph. v:20. 
Measure of thankfulness. Col. ii:j. 
Result of thankfulness (Peace). Phil. 
iv:6, 7. 

A WORD OF WARNING. 

Result of thanklessness. Rom. 1:21-24. 

A WORD OF ADVICE. 

Col. iii: 15-17. Connect with this, 
Psalm c:4, 5. " He is good. His mercy 
is everlasting." Because He is merciful 
He still offers the "unspeakable Gift," 
and until that is accepted we are guilty of 
the basest ingratitude. 

Alf. Sandham. 



DAILY EXPERIENCE. 

I. Praise to Christ. Daily shall He be 
praised. Psa. Ixxii:i5 ; xxxiv:! ; 1:23; 
lxviii:i9; Phil. ii:g-n; Heb. xiii:i5. 

II. Prayer. Be merciful unto me, O 
Lord; for I cry unto thee daily. Psa. 
lxxxvi:3; lxxxviii.9; lv:i7; Lukexviiki; 
Eph. vi:i8. 

III. Searching the Scriptures. These 
were more noble than those in Thessa- 
lonica, in that they received the word with 
all readiness of mind, and searched the 
Scriptures daily. Acts xviku; II Tim, 
iii: 14-17 ; II Pet. i: 21; II Sam. xxiii:2; 
Psa. cxix:9, II, 105,130, 160; John x:35. 



IV. Exhortation. Exhort one another 
daily. Ileb. iii : 1 3 ; x:25; Acts ii 146, 47; 
V42; Rom. xii:S; II Tim. ivM, 2; Jude 

3- 

V. Watching. Blessed is the man that 
heareth me, watching daily at my gates. 
Prov. viii:34; Mark xiii: 33-37; Lukexii.37; 
I Cor. xvi;i3. 

VI. Taking up the cross. And he 
said to them all. If any man will come 
after me, let him deny himself, and take 
up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 
ix.23; Matt. xvi:24; Mark x:2i; Gal. vi: 
14; Col. i:2o; Heb. xii:2. 

VII. Fighting. Be merciful unto me, 
O God; for man would swallow me up; 
he fighting daily, oppresseth me. We 
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but 
against principalities, against powers, 
against the rulers of the darkness of this 
world, against wicked spirits in the heav- 
enlies. Psa. lvi:i, 2; Eph. vi:i2; II 
Tim. ii:3, 4. 

J. H. Brookes, D. D. 



THE 



CHRISTIAN'S 
" TO BE. " 



VERB 



I AM (present saved.) 
"Chief of sinners." I Tim. i:i5 . 
"Nigh by the blood." Eph. ii ; 1 3. 
"A temple of the Holy Ghost." I Cor.. 
iii:i6. 

"Kept by the power of God." I Pet. i: 

5- 

"A sweet savour to Christ." II Cor. 

ii:i5- 

"Waiting for Christ." Luke xii:36. 

"By the grace of God I am what I am." 
I Cor. xv:io. 

I was (past, unsaved.) 

"Ungodly." Rom. v:6. 

"Afar off." Eph. ii: 13. 

"In kingdom of darkness." Col. i:i3. 

'•Astray." I Pet. ii:25. 

"Enemies." Rom. v:io. 

"Sold under sin." Rom. vii:i4. 

"The wages of sin is death." Rom.. 
vi:23. 



142 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



should be (conditional holy.) 
'Looking unto Jesus." Heb. xii:2. 
'Shining." Matt. v:i6. 
'Putting on the Lord Jesus." Rom, 
:i4- 

'Transformed." Rom. xii:2. 
shall be (future glorified.) 
'Ever with the Lord." I Thess. iv:i7. 
'Like Him." I John iii:2. 
'Receiver of a crown." Jas. ii2. 
Serving Him." Rev. xxii:3. 
have been (perfect, healed.) 
'Redeemed." I Pet. i:iS, 19. 
Born again." II Pet. i:2, 3. 
Made whole." Mark v:34. 
Called unto holiness." I Thess. iv:7. 
M. B. 



FOURTEEN GREAT FACTS IN 
JOHN VI. 

1. We are .given by God to Christ. 

37, 39- 

2. We are drawn to Christ, v. 44. 

3. We are come to Christ, vs. 35, 45. 

4. We believe in Christ, v. 47. 

5. We see Christ, v. 40. 

6; We live by Christ, and are sustained 
by Him, vs. 51, 57. 

7. We feed on Christ, and its results to 
us, vs. 54, 56. 

8. We are taught by Christ, v. 45. 

9. We are witness for Christ, v. 69. 

10. We are the abiding ones in Christ, 
v. 56. 

11. We have everlasting life in Christ, 
vs. 40, 47. ' 

12. We have Christ, the True Bread 
from Heaven, v. 32. 

13. We shall be raised up by Christ, vs. 
39, 40, 44, 54. 

14. We are sure of all these Divine 
blessings, because that Christ is the Son 
of the living God, v. 69. W. H. 



2. What we are. Eph. ii: 13, 8; I John 
iii:2; I Pet. ii.9, 10; Eph. iv:30; I Cor. 
vi:n, I Cor. iii:23; Rom. ii:i4: Eph. ii: 
20; I Pet. 1:5. 

3. What we are not. I Cor. vi:ig; 
Rom. vi-i4; Rom. viiiig, 12. 

4. What we know. Rom. vii:i8; II 
Tim. i:i2; I John iii: 14.; Rom. viii:28, 
(26); II Cor v:i; I John iii :2. 

5. What we have. Eph. 1:7; ii: iS; I 
John v:i3; ii:i, 20; II Pet. i: 19; Heb. vi: 
19. 

6. What we shall be. Col. iii - 4; I John 
iii:2. 

Rev. Geo. F. Pentecost. 



THE BELIEVER'S INTERESTS IN 

CHRIST, AS SET FORTH IN 

II TIMOTHY. 

1. Life in Christ Jesus, i:i. Power of 
His life. 

2. God's calling, etc., in Christ Jesus, 
i:9. Power of His calling. 

3. Faith and love in Christ Jesus, i:i3. 
Power of faith and love. 

4. Grace in Christ Jesus, ii: 1. Power 
of His grace. 

5. Salvation in Christ Jesus, ii:io. 
Power of His coming. 

6. Live godly in Christ Jesus, iii:i2. 
Power of the world, 

7. Faith in Christ Jesus, iii: 15. Power 
of the Word. 

F. E. M. 



CHRIST AND HIS SERVANTS IN 
ACTS. 



THE BELIEVER'S POSITION. 
1. What we were. I Pet. ii:io; Eph. 
ii:i2, 13; Rom. v:8, 10, 6; Eph. ii:3, 1. 



i/- 



Christ's Command, i:4; cf. John xiii: 
1. 

Christ's Promise, i:3; cf. II Pet. i.4. 
Christ's Design, i:8; cf. Isa. xliii:io. 
Christ Obeyed, i:i2, 13: cf. John ii:5. 
Christ is Faithful, ii:i, 2; cf. Heb. x : 

23. 

Christ's Witnesses, ii:i4, 36; cf. Acts 
viii:4. 

Christ Accepted, ii:4i, 43; cf. John i: 
12. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



143 



Christ's Name Magnified, iii:6; cf 
Phil. i:20. 

Christ's Work Opposed, iv:i6, 18; cf, 
Luke xxi:i5. 

Christ's Workers Rejoicing, iv:23; cf. 
Matt. v:ii, 12. 

Christ's Workers Strengthened, iv:3i; 
cf. II Cor. xii:g. 

Christ's Workers United, iv:34, 37; cf. 
John xvii:2i. 

Christ's Workers Persecuted, v:i8; cf. 
John xv:i8. 

Christ's Workers Delivered, v:ig; cf. 
Rom. viii :3 r . 

Christ's Enemies Withstood, v:2g; cf. 
Jer. i:S. 

Christ's Enemies Confounded, v.22; cf. 
Psa. vii:4. 

Christ's Enemies Enraged, v:33; cf. 
Psa. xxi:ii. 

Christ's Work Irresistible, v:3g; cf. 
Isa. xliii:i3. 

Christ's Workers Martyred, vii:5g; cf. 
Rev. xiim. 

Christ's Workers Accepted, vii:5g; °f- 
John xiv:2, 3. 

Christ's Spirit Manifested, vii:6o; cf. 
Eph. iv:32. 

Christ's Enemy at Work, viii:3; cf. 
Psa. xxxvi:4. 

Christ's Enemy Conquered, ix:6; cf. 
Gal. ii:20. 

Christ's Enemy Transformed, ix:22; 
cf. Rom. xii:2. 

Christ's Church Enlarged. Chaps, x, 
xi, xvi; cf. Rev. v:g. 

Christ the only Saviour, xvi:30, 31; cf. 
Acts iv:i2. 

What think ye of Christ ? 

Alf. Sandham. 



5. Our aim, iv: r. 

6. Partakers of, iv:i3. 

7. Our testimony of, v:i. 



F. E. M. 



SUFFERINGS OF CHRISTIANS IN 
I PETER. 

1. Suffer for Christ's sake, ii:ig. 

2. Suffer like Him, ii:20. 

3. Suffer for righteousness' sake, iii : 1 4. 

4. Suffer for well doing, iii: 17. 

5. Suffer for His name, iv:i4. 

6. According to the will of God, iv:ig. 

7. Reward of suffering, v:io. 

F. E. M. 



SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST IN 
I PETER. 

1. Foretold, i:ii. 

2. Our example, ii:2i. 

3. His patience in, ii:23- 

4. His endurance, iii:i8. 



"FAINT NOT." 

In prayer. Luke xviii : 1 . 

In confidence. II Cor. iv:i. 

In hope. II Cor. iv:i6. 

In work. Gal vi:g. 

In trusting. Eph. iii: 1 3. 

In well doing (margin) II Thess. iii: 



13- 



Under chastening, Heb. xii:5. 
F. E. 



M 



SUFFERING WITH CHRIST. 

'Who now rejoice in my sufferings for 
you, and fill up that which is behind of 
the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His 
body's sake, which is the Church," Col. i; 
24. "The Church, or body of Christ, is 
to enter the kingdom through many afflic- 
tions, or tribulations (the literal word.) 
Christ is afflicted in the afflictions of His 
people. He is the Head of the Body, and 
so suffers in the sufferings of the mem- 
bers. They suffer, not to take away sin, 
but to be perfected in holiness. They are 
afflicted because they take Christ's part in 
the evil world, and are so like Christ. 
Each saint's tear that falls, each stroke 
from a God-hating world a saint receives, 
lessens the total amount which Christ 
foresaw the Church would endure till He 
came for her. Paul, as one of the Body, 
as willing to receive many in Christ's 



144 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



service, so the amount yet to be made up 
might be more speedily filled up." (W. J. 
Erdman). 

And so other Scriptures: 

The Head has suffered. Matt. xvi:2i; 
I Pet. iii: 8; Heb. ix:26-28. 

The Body must suffer. Col. r.24; Phil. 
i:29; II Cor. i:5; I Thess. iii:3, 4; Acts 
ix: 16; I John iv:i7. 

I. How do we suffer with Christ ? 

1. In Temptation. Head, Heb. ii:i8. 
Body, I Cor. x. 13. 

2. In Adversity. Head, Psa. xxxv:~5. 
Body, Heb. xiii:3. 

3. In Shame. Head, Heb. xii:2. 
Body, Acts v:4i; II Tim. i:8-i2. 

4. In Need. Head, Matt. iv:2; viii:2o; 
John iv:6, 7. Body, Phil. iv:io, 12; 
Rom. xii:i3. 

5. In Reproach. Head, Psa. lxix::o; 
Rom, xv:3, Body, I Tim. iv:ro; Heb. 
xii:26; xiii: 13. 

6. In Persecution. Head, John xv:20. 
Body, II Tim. iii: 12; John xv:2; Matt, v 
11. 

7. Well doing. Head, John v:i6-i8. 
Body, I Pet. iii, 14, 17. 

8. According to the will of God. Head, 
Matt. XXVK37-45. Body, I Pet. iv:i9. 

9. With Members. Head, Heb. ii:i4- 
16; I John iv:i7 1. c; Acts ix:4, 5. 
Body, I Cor. xii:26. 

II. Why suffer with Christ ? 

To make perfect. Head, Heb. ii:io. 
Body, I Pet. v:io. 

To learn obedience. Head, Heb. v: 
8. Body, Psa. cxix:67. 

To succor the tempted. Head, Heb. 
ii:i8. Body, II Cor. i:3, 4. 

To be an Example. Head, I Pet. ii: 
21. Body, I Thess. i:6, 7. 

We understand Christ's sufferings bet- 
ter when we suffer, and are thus fitted to 
take our place in suffering as the Bride — 
the Lamb's wife. When we suffer, we 
have the consolations of Christ. II Cor. 
i:5 6, 7. 



III. Our conduct under suffering: 

To rejoice. I Pet. iv: 12-14; Col. 1:24. 

To bless the persecutor. Matt. v:i2;; 
Rom. xii:i4; I Cor. iv:i2. 

To take pleasure in persecutions, in 
reproaches, in necessities, etc. II Cor. 
xii:io. 

To be patient. Jas v:ii; Rom. xik 
12. 

To commit everything to God. I Pet. 
iv:ig. 

To glorify God. I Pet. iv:i6. 

IV. Uses of affliction — suffering: 
Leads to acknowledging error. Hos.. 

v:i5- 

Leads to delight in law of God and 
keeping of His Word. Psa. cxix:7i, 67. 

To bring back from wandering. Luke 
xv:i7, 19. 

To teach righteousness. Isa. xxvi:g. 

To humble and do good. Deut. viii:5^ 
16. 

To manifest the works of God. John 
ix.23. 

To lead to self-judgment. I Cor. xh 
30-32. 

To work patience. Jas i:2, 3; Rom. 

v:5- 

To make us partakers of His holiness. 
Heb. xii.io. 

To cause us to bear fruit. Heb.xii:ii. 

To glorify God. John xi:4- 

V. Rewards of suffering: 

1. Blessings — 

Shall be comforted. Matt. v:4. 
Shall inherit the earth. Matt. v:5. 
Theirs the kingdom of Heaven. Matt, 
v.io. 

Great reward in Heaven. Matt. v:i2. 

2. Receive Crown of Life. Jas. i:i2. 

3. Be glorified with Him. Rom. viii: 

17. 

4. Reign with Him. II Tim. ii:i2. 

Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 



BENEFITS OF TRIALS. 
1. Teaching God's power and faithful- 



NOTES FOR 1'IBLE READINGS. 



145 



ness. Psa. xxxivug; Psa. xi:3, 4; Psa. 
xxxi:S, 9. 

2. Learning to trust in God. Deut iv: 
30. 31; Neh. i : S , 9 : Psa lxxviii:34; Isa. 
x:2o, 21 ; Plosea ii:6, 7. 

3. A test of faith and obedience. Gen. 
xxiii.i, 2; Heb. xi : 1 7 ; Ex. xv:23-25; 
Deut. viii:2, 16; I Pet. 1:7; Rev. ii: 19. 

H. B. Chamberlain. 



EMPTYING. 

"That we may be so emptied of self 
that God may use us." 

What God has to empty us from as 
workers: 

Self-esteem. Matt, v.3; xviii:i-4; I 
Sam. xv:i7; Phil, ii :3 

Self -righteousness, etc. Job xxxiii:9 
and xl:4. 

Self -consciousness. Either in the form 
of pride and forwardness, or of shrinking 
and fear. Perfect love casts out the lat- 
ter, and drowns the former. I John iv: 
16, 17, 18; Rom. v:5; Acts iv:3i. 

Self-assertion. Love of power and pre- 
eminence. Phil, ii : 3 ; Judges viii : 3 ; 
Luke xxii:24. 

Harsh judgment of others. Jas. iv: ! 1 ; 
I Cor. xiii:7, 8. 

Envy of the success of others. I Cor. 
xiii:4; Acts viii: 17-19; Gen. xxxvii:3, 4. 

God empties us when on our part we 
are willing to — 

1. Let in the light. 

2. Be absolutely honest before Him 
and with ourselves, as to the true condition 
of soul. 

3. To yield ourselves entirely to His 
emptying processes. These come to us 
in various ways — 

(a) Withholding manifest results in our 
work. Matt. xvii:i6-2i ; Acts xii:2i-23 

(b) Withdrawing us from a sphere of 
work in which we have been successful 

(c) Uprootings from home and long 
loved privileges. Jer. xlviiinr, 12. 

10 



(d) Discipline of sorrow. Psa. cxxxi: 
2; Isa. xxxviii:i, 13; Psa. cxix:67. 

(e) Disappointments and losses. 

(/) Failure. Some one remarked a 
little while ago in reference to her work 
for God: "I shall be a failure all my 
life." This is just the point God wants 
to bring the "I" to. Once gained, not 
in bitterness, but in reality and deep 
humility, Pie can begin to use us. I Cor. 
xv:io. See II Cor. vi:i-io. 

That these and many other tokens of 
the hand of the Lord emptying us in 
answer to our prayers, may have their full 
effect, we should — 

1. Recognize and yield to them. 

2. Take the place of confession and 
humiliation. Ps. li:3, etc., etc. 

3. Live under His eye at all times. 
Acts ii:25. I Sam. xxii:23. 

4. Practice the denial of self in daily 
life. Rom. xv:3; Phil. ii:5-8; II Cor. iv: 
10. 

He empties that He may fill. See sol- 
emn warning in Lukexi:2i-26. We want 
to be self-emptied that we may be Christ- 
filled. See Luke i: 53 ; Acts ix: 17; Eph. 
iii : 19 ; v.18; Deut. xxxiii:23. 

CHRIST THE BURDEN BEARER. 

Bears His people. Deut. xxxii:i i . 
Bears our sins. I Pet. ii:^4- 
Bears our sorrows. Isa. liii:4; lxiii:g. 
Bears our sickness. Matt, viii :i7. 
Bears our burdens. Psa. lv:22. 
Bears our care. I Pet. v:7. 
The government shall be upon His 
shoulder. Isa. ix:6. 

Anon. 



GOD'S "FEAR NOTS." 



Isaiah xli: 10-14 
Fear not, Abram 
Fear not, Hagar. 
Fear not, Isaac. 
Fear not, Jacob. 
Fear not 



Gen. xv:i. 
Gen. xxi:i7. 
Gen. xxvi:24. 
Gen. xlvi:3 # 
Moses. Num. xxi:34< 



146 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Fear not, Joshua. Josh, viii: i . 

Fear not, Gideon. Judges vi:23. 

Fear not, Israel. Isa. xliii:3. 

Fear not, Ezekiel. Ezek. iii:g. 

! Tear not, Daniel. Dan. x:i2. 

Fear not, Zerubbabel. Hag. ii:5. 

Fear not, Zecharias. Luke i:l3. 

Fear not, Mary. Luke i:30. 

Fear not, Simon. Luke v:io. 

Fear not, Jairus. Luke viii:50. 

Fear not, Paul. Acts xxvii:24. 

Fear not, John. Rev. 1:17. 

Fear not, Christian. Matt. x:26, 28; 
Luke xii:32; Psa. xxiii:4; Psa. xxvii:i-3; 
I John iv:r8; Heb. viii: 5, 6. 

"God is our refuge and strength . 
therefore will not we fear, though the 
earth be removed." 

Geo. E. Williams. 



TO THOSE IN TROUBLE. 

"My soul is cast down within me." 
I*sa. xlii:6. 

" Why art thou cast down, oh! my 
soul?" Psa. xlii:5. "Hope thou in God." 
Psa. xliii:5. 

Trouble from God's hand, no second 
causes. Psa. xxxii:4, f. c; Psa. xxxviii: 
2, 1. c; Job ii:io; Job. xix:2i, 1. c. 

He doth not willingly afflict. Lam. iii: 

33- 

It is done in love. Rev. iii: 19, f. c. ; 
Heb. xii:6; Jobv:i7; Psa. xciv:i2; Psa. 
cxix:75, 1. c. 

Shows we are children. Pro v. iii: 11, 
12; Deut. viii:5. 

It is for our own good. Rom. viii:28; 
Psa. cxix:7i, f. c. 

Keeps us in the way. Psa. cxix:67. 

Drives us to God. Hos. v:i5, 1. c; 
Deut. iv:30, 31. 

Makes us grow. Ex. i: 12. 

Refines away the dross. Mai. iii:3, f. 
c. ; Isa. xlviii:io. 

Makes us fruitful. Gen. xli:52, 1. c. ; 
II Cor. viii:2 ; Heb. xii:ii; Jer. xv:2; 
I Pet. i:7- 



Makes us patient. Rom. v:3, 1. c. 

Jesus has felt our sorrows. Isa. liii:7; 
lxiii:g. 

He knows our frame. Psa. ciii:i4. 

Affliction is common to all. I Pet. v:g; 
I Cor. x:i3. 

Brief at the worst. II Cor. iv:i7. 

Endure— not troubled. Jer. xiv:i, f.c. ; 
I Thess. iii: 3 ; II Tim. iv:5 2d c. 

God can bring good out of evil. Gen. 
1:20. 

No lasting earthly comfort. Psa. lx: 
11; Eccl. iv:i, 1. c; Jer. viii:i8. 

God can and will comfort us. II Cor. 
vii:6; Psa. xxxvii:24; cxix:5o, 92; Isa. 
lxi:2 1. c. ; lxvi:i3. 

Sends the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. 
Jno. xiv:i6-i8. 

Though in darkness, hope in God. Isa. 
1: 10. Psa. xlii:5, 11. 

Though in darkness and trouble — pray. 
Acts xvi:25; Isa. xxvi:i6; James v:i3, f.c. 

Try to impart comfort to others. I 
Thess. ivi8; II Cor. i:4; Gal. vi:2. 

We are not to feel rebellious. Prov. 
xix:3, !• c,; Job xxxiv:37, f.c; Josh, xxii: 
29. f. c. ; Neh. ii:ig, I.e.; Lam. iii:42-44; 
Psa. lxviii:6, 1. c. 

We should be willing to do or suffer 
His will. Mark xiv:38, 1. c. ; Jno. iv:34; 
Dan. iv:35; Rev. xvii-17, f. c. ; Judges v:2. 

Peace, consequence of resting in His 
will. Job xxxiv:29, f. c. ; Psa. ixig; jno. 
xvi:33; Isa. xxvi:3. 

He does not always take away the 
burden, but He does promise to -sustain 
the bearer. Psa. lv:22. 

We shall be finally delivered. II Sam. 
xxii:28, f. c. ; Rev. vii:i4. 

"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do 
right ?" Gen. xviii:25. 

Even as the hills are round about Jeru- 
salem, so the Lord is round about His 
own. Ps. cxxv:2. Underneath are the 
everlasting arms. Deut. xxxiii:27. Above 
are the overshadowing wings. Psa xci:4. 
Miss Katie A. Clarke. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



147 



" MY MEDITATION OF HIM 
SHALL BE SWEET. " 

Psa. civ: 34. 

(R. V.) Let my meditation be sweet 
unto Him. 

(Young.) Sweet is my meditation of 
Him. 

Meditation. The heart going out to 
its object of life and communion, 1. e., 
Contemplation, consideration, musing. 

Meditate, " mutter." See Josh. i:8; 
Ps. i:2; lxiii:6; lxxvii:i2; cxliii:5 ; Isa. 
xxxiii:i8. 

Bowed down, muse. Gen. xxiv:63, 
(margin); Ps. cxixus, 23, 48, 78, 148. 

To be careful, take care. I Tim. iv:i5. 

Earnest thought. Ps. xlix:3; v:i. 

Musing. Ps. xix:i4; civ:34; cxix:o,7, 
99. 

Sweet Things, (i. e.) precious, glad- 
some, pleasing, delightful. Ps. cxix:i03. 

Sweet counsel together. Ps. Iv:i4. 

How sweet are thy words. Ps. cxi x 
103. 

For they are sweet. Ps. cxli:6. 

Sweeter than the honey. Ps. xix:io. 

See II Pet. i:4. 

Sweet sleep. Prov. iii:24; see Ps. xxiii; 
Eccl. v:i2; Jer. xxxiii:26. 

Light is sweet. Eccl. xi:7. 

His fruit was sweet. Cant, ii: 3. 

His voice sweet. Cant. ii:i4. 

His cheeks sweet. Cant. v:i3. 

His lipssweet. Cant. v:i3. 

His mouth sweet. Cant. v:i6. 

Christ in Psalms: 

1. Creator. Ps. civ; xcv:l-6. 

2. Preserver. Ps. lxviii:ig. 

3. \Redeemer. Ps. xl:6-8. 

4. Substitute. Ps. xxii:i2-i8; lxix:2o, 
21. 

5.. Sin bearer. Ps. xxxii:i-7. 

6. Mediator. Ps. lxxxv: — . 

7. Saviour. Ps. xl:i-3, 16, 17. 

8. Salvation. Ps. iii : 7, 8; xxvii:i-5; 
lxii:i. 2, 5, 8. 

9. Exalted Captor. Ps. Ixviii:i8. 



10. Wonderful Mercy. Ps. ciii. 

11. Prophet. Ps. xxxii:8. 

12. Priest. Ps. cxvi:i, 2; cxxxviii: 1-3. 

13. Loving kindness. Ps. xvii:7. 

14. Ever present refuge and strength. 
Ps. xlvi. 

15. Abiding Place. Ps. xci 1-4. 

16. Shepherd — Good, Great, Chief. Ps. 
xxiii. 

17. Word. Ps. xix:7, 8; cxix:97, 103, 
165; cxxxviii: 2. 

18. Hope. Ps. 1:3-5. 

19. All. Ps. lxxiii:23-26; lxxxvii:7. 
God. The name of the Supreme Being. 
The eternal, infinite and incomprehen- 
sible being. — Cruden. 

The eternal, independent and self-exis- 
tent being. — A. Clark. 

Such a being is unapproachable by man. 

Then comes the question how can the 
meditation of this great, mighty being be 
sweet. 

The sweetness is found when we behold 
God in Christ Jesus. John i: 18 ; Rev. 
1:4-8. 

In nature, essence, substance, very 
God. 

The uncreated eternal / am. 

1. God manifested in the flesh. Heb. 
i:i, 2; John 1:14; I Tim. iii: 1 6. 

2. Representative and resemblance of 
God. II Cor. iv:4 1. c; Col. i: 5; John 
xiv:g; Heb. i:3; John i:i8. 

3. Co-equal with God. Phil. ii:6; John 
x:30, 38; Col. ii: 19; John i:i. 

4. Everlasting God. Micah v:2; Prov. 
viii:22-3i; Heb. i:8. See I John v:20. 

5. God omniscient. John 1:48 ; ii:23, 
24; vi:64; John xvi:3o. 

6. God omnipresent. Matt. xxviii:2o; 
John iii:i3; Matt. xviii:20. 

7. God omnipotent. Isa ix:6; Rev. 



8. God immutable. Heb. i:i2; xiii: 

The great God. Titus ii: 13. 

The true God. I John v:20. 

The eternal God. Deut. xxxiii.27. 



148 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



The only wise God. Jude 25. 

The God of love. John iii:i6. 

The God of redemption. Acts xx:28. 

God over all, blessed, forever. Rom. 
ix:5. 

God worthy of our faith. John xiv: 
1, 2. 

God of joy. Isa. lxi:io. 

My God. John xx :2 8. 

God all the way. Ps. xlviii:i4. 

God coming. Ps. 1:3. 

God come. Isa. xxv:g. 

In the beginning God. Gen. i:i. 

In the present God. Isa. viii:io. 

In the future God. Ps. xlviii:i4. 

"My meditation of Him shall be sweet." 

MY WAY. 

This is one of the titles Jesus our Lord 
takes to Himself. John xiv:6. 

'What led Christ to make this statement? 
vs. 1-4. 

To whom made. John xiii:3o, 31, etc; 
xiv:6 1. c. 

What the general meaning of "the way" 
— a means of communication between 
two- extreme points, and transition from 
one to the other. 

What are the two extremes? 
Max. God. 

We have some knowledge of the vast 
distance — the great gulf. Do we know 
the way? "I am the way!" 

What does the "I" imply or suggest? 
See John iii : 1 3 ; Heb. x:20. 

Thousands of ways that lead to ruin, 
but only one way to God, Heaven, Life, 
Salvation. I Tim. ii : 5 ; Acts iv:i2. 

1. The way is unchangeable. Heb. 
xiii:8. If anything it gets brighter. Prcv. 
iv:i8. 

2. The way of Peace. Luke r.70/ 
Eph. ii: 14. 

3. The way of Life. Prov. xv:24; 
Col. iii:4. 

4. The w r ay of Pleasantness. Prov. 
iii. 17, Cant, i: 16. 



5. The way of Holiness. Isa. xxxv:8; 
I Cor. i:30. 

6. The way Everlasting. Psa. cxxxix; 
24; Isa ix:6. 

7. The way into the Holiest. Heb- 
ix:8; x:ig, 20. 

8. An exclusive way. John xiv:6 I. c, 
and yet see John vi:37 1. c. 

9. A safe way. I Pet. iii: 18; Jude 24. 

10. A way blight with hopes. John 
xiv.1-3: Rom. viii -.-14-19, 23-25, 31-39. 

Col. 11:6-8. 

II Cor. v: 1 8-20. 



THE TRUTH. 

There was a time when in this world' 
there was nothing but T?'uth, but he who 
is a liar and the father of lies entered, and 
darkness, deception and death followed, 
and the natural man became foreign to 
truth. See John viii:46; I Tim. vi:5; IT 
Tim. iii : S : II Thess. ii: 1 2. See II Tim. 
ii: 19. 

What is Truth? The answer is alone in 
the person of Christ. 

How the soul thirsts for what this world' 
cannot supply. Nothing short of Truth 
satisfies. 

Truth will admit of any investigation. 

Pilate seems to have feared to know the 
answer to this question, What is Truth? 
John xviii:3S. 

Let us not shrink from coming in con- 
tact with the Truth. 

In what sense or particular is 
Christ the Truth? 

1. Not a docttine or a system, but the 
very embodiment of all true doctrines and 
systems. 

In reality Himself the Truth. Heb. i: 
1-3; John 1:14; xiv:6; vii:i8. 

God would thus speak to us in Truth. 

In person He embodies the Truth. 

He is the substance of all Truth, and 
absolutely the Truth. 

2. In respect to all types and shadows, 
Christ is the Truth. John i: 1 7. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



149 



3. In this He, like all Truth 
ates, frees from bondage. 

What greater bondage than the sin of 
falsehood and deception, rationalism, hu- 
man reason, etc. Johnviii:32. See v. 36. 

4. In regard to His Words. 
What He knows. Tohn iii:n; viii.45, 

46. 

What He says. John xiv:2; xvi:7. 

5 . The fountain and bond of all Chris- 
tian love. 

In Truth. Ill John 1; I John iiinS, 19. 

6. The root or life of all Chiistian 
character. Ill John 3. 

If Christian character is shaped accord 
ing to the Truth, we shall have Truth in 
the inward parts, and seen in the outward 
life. 

How does life correspond to the Truth? 
II John 4. 

The Truth is the Christian's standard. 
John iv:2.3. 

7. The Christian s rule of life. Ill 
John 3 1. c. II John 4. Walk in the 
Truth. 

8. The object of Christian zeal. Ill 
John 8. 

See R. V. Fellow workers with the 
Truth. 

What a need of just such zeal to-day. 
The Truth is assailed, and millions are 
crying for the Truth. 

End of those who obey not the Truth. 
II Thess. ii: 10-12. 

MY LIFE. 

What is life? Rom.vi:23; I John v: n, 
12. 

Now see John v:24, and I John i:i-4. 

1. Life, past, origin. Ps. xxxvi:g; 
John xiv:6; i:4; v:26; II Cor. v:i7. R. 
V. margin. 

Christ has not a life for Himself and 
another for His own, but only one for 
body and head together, joined by vital 
union. 

2. Life, present, sustaining, etc. John 



liber- vi:32-35. See Matt. v:6; Gal. ii:2o R.V., 
Rom. v:io; John x-'io. 

3. Life, future, eternal. John x::8; 
I John v:i3; John xi:25, 26. See also 
Col. iii:i-4. 



MY REFUGE. 

The eternal God is my refuge. Deut. 
xxxiii:27- See II Sam. xxii:3; Ps. xci:i, 
2; xxvii:5 R. V. 

Cities of Refuge in Him. 

1. Kedash. Holiness. Rev. iv:8; Heb. 
xii:ic; Col. i:2i, 22. 

2. Shechem. Strength. Ps. xlvi:i; 
Phil, iv.13; II Cor. xii:9; John xv:5 1. c; 
Ps. lxviii:35. 

3. Hebron. Friendship, fellowship. 
John xv:i4, 15; I John i:3 1. c; I Cor. 
i:g. 

4. Bezer. Stronghold, high tower. 
Ps. lxxi:3: cxxv:2. xviii:2. 

5. Ramoth Gilead. Exaltation. I Sam. 
xxii:47; Phil, ii 15-1 1 ; Ps. xxxiv:3. 

6. Golan. Joy, exultation, John xv: 
11 ; xvi:ig-24. 

He is our strong consolation. Heb. 
vi: 17-20. 

MY ADYOCATE. 

I John ii:i. 

Priesthood and Advocacy. As Priest 
we associate Christ with blood-shedding, 
offering sacrifice. All having to do with 
a transaction with God for man. There 
could not be such a thing as an advocate 
with God. It would imply sin unsettled 
for. 

1. Has the question of sin been settled? 
Heb. ix:26. 

Sin settled with whom, by whom, for 
whom? Everything between God and the 
man in Christ is settled forever. But 
mark the question of relationship. Father. 

As children we are continually grieving 
the Father. Therefore, so long as we 
are in these mortal bodies we need some 
one to take our part with the Father. 



i5° 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



-. Advocate. One who pleads the cause 
of or for another. John xiv:i6, 26; xv: 
26; xvi:7. 

Two meanings. Job xvi:2. He who 
comforts. I John ii:i. He who pleads, 
or an attorney. 

3. Tzuofold Advocacy. Having ac- 
complished His work for sin, Christ as- 
cended to God, and there as High Priest 
in the holy of holies he presents his blood 
— accepted of God. The result is, the 
Holy Spirit Advocate descends. Another 
Advocate. Then we have this advocate, 
also perfect partnership or understanding. 
No discord. 

The one to keep from sinning. John 
xiv:26. 

The other to plead for us when we do 
sin. I John ii:i. 

4. The Righteous Advocate. I John 
ii:i 1. c. 

All His pleading is done on righteous 
principles. He does not undertake an 
unrighteous cause. 

5. Sin and Advocacy. When does He 
plead for us. Heb. vii:25. 

Think of the multitude of secret par- 
dons. Sin or have sinned. Sins of omis- 
sion and commission. 

6. Affection of the Advocate. (1) To 
the Father. (2) To His brethren. My 
brother is my advocate. 

Think of it. Having in His flesh one 
of us as a brother put away our sin. 
That which condemned us. He is rep- 
resented here as continuing his affection 
to and for us with the one common 
Father. 

Every feeling of affection which brought 
Him from the throne to the cross burns 
now with increased fervor. How urgent. 
John xvii:i5. How intense. How un- 
changeable. John xi:42: Heb. xiii:8. 

7. His ability. Wisdom or knowledge. 
Col. 11:3. 

The statutes. The law. Rom. x.4. 
He demands acquittal on the ground of 



his own law keeping, and the articles of 
the covenant of grace. We have nothing 
to plead except confess our guilt. Fie 
says nothing good of us, but He never 
ceases to plead for us. 



MY DELIVERER. 
II Sam. xxii:2; Ps. xviii:2. 
Eternal Deliverer. II Cor. i: 10. Three- 
fold Past, Present, Future. 



I. 


Past. 


I. 


From wrath. I Thess. i:io. 


2. 


From Satan. Col. i: 13. 


3- 


From law. Rom. vii:6. 


4- 


From fear. Ps. xxxiv:4. 


5- 


From death. Ps. Ivi:i3; Heb. 


II 


. Piesent. 


1. 


From world. Gal. i:4. 


2. 


From all iniquity. Titus ii:i4. 


3- 


From temptation. II Pet. ii:g 



Ps. 

xxxiv:7. 

4. From trouble II Tim. iii:ii; Ps. 
xxxiv:i7; liv:7. 

5. From all enemies. Luke i:74. See- 
II Cor. ii : 1 4-. 

III. Future. 

1. Promise. Jer. i:8, 19; xv.20, 21. 

2. Faith. II Tim. iv:i8; Ps. Ivi:i3. 

3. Assurance. Dan. iil: 1 7 ; Ps. xxxii:7. 

4. Of the body. Rom. viii:23. 

5. From the presence of sin. I Cor. xv: 

44, 49^ 53- 

God is our Deliverer. Dan. vi:i6; II 
Sam. xxii:2; Ps. xviii:2. 

Christ is our Deliverer. Luke iv:i8. 

The Holy Ghost is our Deliverer. 
John xvi:i3. See Jude 24, 25. 



" MY TEACHER." 

This means that I am Wis pupil. That 
I take the place of His scholar. That I 
am in His school a great deal; yea, every- 
thing depends on the Teacher. 

We are not thought unwise if we seek 
to be educated by the best masters. 

TEACHER, MASTER, ESSENTIAL QUALIFI- 
CATIONS. 

I. Knowledge. 



NOTE? FOR BIBLE READINGS: 



*5 



(i.) Knowledge of His pupil, as to his 
peculiarities, needs and capacities. 

(2 ) Knowledge to meet all these. John 
iii:2. Col. ii.3; see John ii 123, 24; Matt. 
vii:2g. 

2 . Potv: r of com m unicating knowledge. 
He causeth His pupils to understand. 
See Job xxxvi:22; Isa. xlviii; 1 7 ; Luke 
xxiv:32, 45. 

3. Adaptation. Think of the number 
of scholars, the character and conditions, 
the ages and variety. 

4. Patience. How wonderfully patient 
He has been with us when we think how 
slow we are to learn. Luke xxiv:25, 27. 

5. Perseverance. I will never leave 
thee. See Deut. xxxii.9-11. 

6. Thoroughness. He must have order 
and obedience. He must see that every 
lesson is taught. His own honor and 
glory are at stake. Mark xii:i4. 

7. Delight in and love for His pupils. 
What gives him more delight than to have 
His disciples at His feet. He takes posi- 
tive pleasure in instructing those who will 
be taught. Ps. xxxii:S, margin. ' 

Learn of me- Matt. xi:2g. 
Only one school book. II Tim. iii: 14.- 
17; Heb. iv:i2. 

Graduation in glory. Col. iii:4. 

MY KEEPER. 

Read Ps. cxxi. 

Keeper, i. e., to retain or hold fast, 
preserve (Spurgeon). The preserving 
one. 

1 What power. I Pet. 1:5. Power of 
God, see Ps. cxxi:2. 

2. What tenderness. Ps. xvii:8; Deut. 
xxxii:g, io; Zech. ii : 3 ; Tender preserver. 

3. In all places. Gen. xxviii:i>. 

4. In all our ways. Ps. xci:ii; Prov. 
ii : S ; Josh. xxiv:i7. 

5. In all time. Isa. xxvii:3; Ps. xxxvii: 
2S; cxxi 4; cxxi:6-8; cxxv:i, 2. 

6. What State. Phil. iv:7; Isa. xxvi:3. 

7. Who He keeps. 



(1) John xvii:i.\ 

(2) II Tim. i:i2. Note condition. 
God's Sovereignty. John xvii:i2. 
Man's responsibility. II Tim. i:i2. 

See Ps cxlv:2c; II Tim. iv: 1 S ; Jude 1, 
21, 24, 25. 

MY HELPER. 

Ps. liv:4. 

Need. Hos. xiii :q. 

He is able. Ps. Ixxxix:i9. 

His promise. Isa. xlino, 13, 14. 

Conditions of receiving His help. Ps. 
cxvi:6. See Matt. xv:22-28; Ps. cvii. 

Need of keeping in this condition. II 
Chron. xxvi:5, 7, 15, 16. 

Faith. Ps. cxxin, 2; cxxiv:8; Isa. 1:7. 

Blessing. Ps. cxlvi:> Compare v. 3 
and Ps. 1x:ii. 

Caution. Isa. xxxi:i. 

To those who refuse His proffered help. 
Isa. x:3; II Thess. i:7-io. See Heb. 
xiii:6. 

" MY SHEPHERD." 
I. Good Shepherd. John x. 

1. He is without sin, therefore good 
(i. e. God.) 

2. He is good in life. From first to last 
He went about doing good. Acts x:38. 

3. He is good in love. We measure 
love by the sacrifice she makes. What of 
Jesus ? 

He loved me. I John iv:io; Rom. 
viii:37. 

II. Great Shepherd. Heb. xiii:20. 

1. He is great in victory. I Cor. xv. 

2. He is great in power. Matt, xxviii: 
20. 

3. He is great in sympathy. Heb. ii: 
14-18. 

III. Chief Shepherd. I Pet. v:4. 

1. Chief in being alone. Jehovah I 
am. Ex. iii:i4; John viii.58. 

2. Chief in ownership. John x:27"30. 

3. Chief in glory. Matt. xxv:3i. 
Then one fold, one Shepherd. John x: 
16. 



5 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



He is My Shepherd. I shall not want. 
Ps. xxiii. Mark possessive pronoun my. 

1. Lost sheep, or the flock astray. 
Num. xxvii:i5, 17; I Kings xxii:i7; 
Matt. ix:36: Isa. liii:6; Ezek. xxxiv:5, 6; 
Ps. cxix.176. 

2. The Shepherd after His sheep. 
Ezek. xxxiv.n, 12, 16, Luke xv:-L. 

3. The Shepherd's value of His sheep. 
Johnx:u; Zech. xiii:7. 

4. The Shepherd finds His sheep. 
Ezek. xxxiv:i2, 16; Luke xv:5, 7. 

5. The Shepherd's care for His sheep. 
Isa. xl:io; Luke xii:32; Ezek xxxiv:i3- 
15, 23. 

6. The Shepherd's knowledge of His 
Sheep. Ezek. xxxiv:3i; John x:i4. 

7. The Shepherd watches over and de- 
fends His sheep. I Sam. xvii:34, 35; 
Ezek. xxxiv:22, 25; John x:. 7, 28; Jer. 
xxxkio. 

S. The Shepherd calls His sheep. John 
x:4. 

9. The Shepherd leads His sheep. 
John x 3, 4; Ps. lxxx:i; Ps. xxiii;2, 3. 

10. The Shepherd's marks of His 
sheep. John x:26, Believe me. John x: 
14, Know me. John x:27. Follow me. 

11. The Shepherd's continued presence 
with His sheep. Ps. xxiii. 4. 

12. The Shepherd's great flock. John 
x:i6. 

13. The Shepherd's immutability. 
Past. (1) The good shepherd. John 

x:28, Death. 

Present. (2) The great Shepherd. 
Heb. xiii.20, Life. 

Future (3) The chief Shepherd. I 
Pet. v:4, Glory. 

14. The Shepherd's judgment, or final 
gathering of His sheep. Matt. xxv:3I, 46. 

My song. Ps. xxiii. 



5,». 



i. Promised Saviour. Isa. xix:20; h 



MY SAVIOUR. 

Read Titus i: 1 -4; 3:4-7; ii: 1 1-14. 
Saviour, i. e., One who saves. Matt. 
i:2i, Jesus, Saviour. 



2. Incarnate Saviour. Luke Li: 11. 

3. Crucified Saviour. Titus ii: 1 3, 1. c, 
14. 

4. Conquering Saviour. II Tim. i: 10. 

5. Exalted Saviour. Acts v. 31. Prince- 
ly Saviour. 

6. Righteous Saviour. II Pet. i:l, 
(margin.) 

7. Only Saviour. Isa. xliii:ii. Hos. 
xiii:4. Isa. xlv:2i, 22. 

8. World's Saviour. John iv:33; I 
John iv:i4. 

9. Present Saviour. II Tim. i:9; Matt. 
i:2i; Heb. vii:25 

10. Mighty Saviour. Isa. xliii:i-3; Ix: 
16; Titus i:3; iii :_(.. 

11. Coming Saviour. Titus ii: 13 ; Phil. 
iii:2o; II Pet. i:io, 11. 

12. My Saviour. II Sam. xxii:3; 
Luke i:47. 

How knowledge emphasizes the my. 

Ln what respect is He my Saviour? 

He saves from the curse of the law. 
Gal. iii : 1 3. 

From the condemnation of sin. Rom. 
viii.i. 

From the power of sin. Rom. vi:g, 
11. 

From the coming judgment. John v: 
24, R. V. 

From the unrest of a guilty conscience. 
Heb. x:22. 

From the fear of death and bondage. 
Heb. ii: x 5. 

From the fretful life of anxious thought 
and care. II Tim. i: 12. 

To the present assurance of salvation. 
Rom. v.9. 

To the joy of conscience acceptance. I 
Pet. i:S. 

To the rest of abiding peace. John 
xiv:27; Eph. ii: 14. 

To the dignity of adoption Rom. viii: 
15; Gal. iv:6 7. 

To the privilege of access. Rom. v;2. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



153 



To the blessedness of fellowship. I 
John i:3, 7 

To the certainty of hope. Heb. iv:ig. 

Do not forget Him. Ps. cvi:2i. 

See Titus ii:io; I Pet. iii:i7, 18; Jude 
24, 25. 

Kindness and love of my Saviour. 
Titus iii:4. 

Grace, mercy and peace of my Saviour. 
Titus 1:4. 

Commandment of my Saviour. Titus 

,: 3- 

Gift of Holy Ghost of my Saviour. 
Titus iii:6. 

Adornment of my Saviour. Titus ii: 10. 

Coming of my Saviour. Titus ii : 13. 

Hallelujah, what a Saviour ! 



" MY COUNSELLOR. " 

I. Lost by the wicked one's counsel. 
Rom. v:i2. 

II. Saved by the Righteous one's coun- 
sel. Prov. xi:i4. 

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MY 
COUNSELLOR ? 

1. Knowledge. His knowledge is in- 
finite. I Sam. ii : 3 . 

2. Wisdom (or Judgment.) How often 
the wisest of human counsellors are baf- 
fled, but His wisdom alone is perfect. 
Isa. xxxiii:6, f. c. Rom. XK33. 

3. Certainty (unerring), no mistakes. 
Heb. vi: 17-20; Prov. xxii: 17-21. 

4. Accessibility. Always in His office. 
Isa. lix:ii, f. c. ; Psa. lxxiii:23. 24. 

5. Faithfulness. Isa. xxv:i. 

6. Untiring. Isa. xlvitg, 10. Ps. lv: 
16, 17. 

7. Sympathy. Heb. iv:i5, 16. 

1. He is alone the soul's counsellor. 
Prov viii:i4. 

2. He is a great counsellor. Jer. xxxii; 
19. 

3. He is the greatest of all counsellors. 
Isa. xl:i3, 14. 

4. He is a wonderful counsellor. Isa. 
ix, (R. V). 



5. His counsel shall stand. Isa. xlvkg, 
10. Prov. xix:2i. 

6. His counsel is unchangeable. Heb. 
vi:i7; Ps. xxxiii: 1 1. 

7. His counsel is infinite. Rom. xi:33- 
36. 

See Mich. iv:g; Ps. xxxvi:5; lxxiii:24; 

lv:; 4 . 

How? His Word. Ps. cxix:4; see 
Phil. iv:8. 

His Spirit. Isa. xi:2, 3. 

To those who know Him not. 

Void of His counsel. Ps. cvihn; see 
Deut. xxxii:28, 29. 

Set at naught His counsel. Prov. 1:25. 

Reject His counsel. Luke vii:30. 

If persisted in, what then? Prov. i: 
25, 26, 30, 31; Isa. xxix:i5; Isa. xxx:i; 
I Chron. x:i3. 



MY PRIEST. 

1. One of us. Ex. xxviii:i; Heb. v:i; 
ii: 10, 17. 

2. Yet not of us. Holy Priest. Ex. 
xxviii:36; Heb. iv:i5; vii:26. 

3. Sacrifice and Mediator. Because 
one of us, and yet not of us. He could 
and did offer Hi?nself a sacrifice for our 
sins.) II Cor. v:2i; Heb. ix:i3-i5. 

4. Intercessor. Heb. ix:ix, 12; vii: 
22-25. 

5. In worship. Means of access. Eph. 
ii: iS ; Heb. x:ig.22; Heb. iii:i; iv:i4-i6. 



MY WISDOM. 
I Cor. i:3o, first half. 

1. Prov. xxviii:26; Luke xii.20; Prov. 
i:7, 22; Matt. vii:26; xxv:2; Rom. i:2i, 

22. 

2. Deut. xxxii:2S, 29. Now see Job 
xxviii:i2, 20. 

3. Read Prov. iv:i-io; Job xxviii:i3- 
20; Prov. iii: 13-1S ; viii: 1 1 . 

4. Isa. xi:i, 2; Luke ii:40, 52; Matt. 
xiii:54. 

Prov. viii: 1 , 2, etc.; iii : iq; Ps. civ.24. 
Rev. v:i2; vii:i2. 



154 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I Tim. i: 1 7. 

5. Eph. 1:17; I Cor. ii:6, 7; Eph. iii 
10, 11; I Cor. i:24-3o; Col. ii:2, 3. 
See Col. i:ig; ii : 3 ; ii:g; iii:ii. 
Matt. xi:i9; Rom. xi:33— 6. 
Eph. i:3; Prov. iii :33 ; Dan. xii:3, 10 

" MY EXAMPLE." 

Key Text. I Pet. ii:2i, 23; John xiii 
13. 17: xvii:i8. 

1. Object in Life. (1) God ward. Ps. 
xl:6; Johniv:34; vi:38; viii:28. 2g, 30. 

See Matt. vii:2i; John i i : 1 7 ; I Cor. x: 
31 : Acts ix:6. 

(2) Manward. I Tim. i : 1 5 ; Luke xix: 
10. 

See I Thess. 11:4; I Cor. ix:i6. 

2. Obedience. John xiv3i; Phil, ii.8; 
Heb. v:8. 

See Rom. i:5; I John 5:2, 3; I Pet. 
i:i4- 

3. Service or Work. Luke ii 49; John 
ix:4; xix:3o; xvii:4. 

See Mark xiii 134; Matt xxi 28; Luke 
xix:i3; Titus ii: 14; Rev. xxii;i2. 

4. Humility. Matt. xi;2g; John xiii: 
4-14; Luke xxii:27. 

See Phil, ii ; 7 ; Luke xxii:26; John iii:i4, 
15; I Pet. v:5; John iii. 30. 

5. Prayer. When did He pray? When 
did He not pray? 

Early. Mark i:35. 
Late. Matt. xiv:23, 24. 
In the night. Luke vi:i2. [i : 3 5 . 

Alone for self. Matt. XXVL39; Mark 
Short. Luke xxiii:46. 
Long. John xvii. 
Earnest. Luke xxii:44. 
For His enemies. Luke xxiii:34. 
See Rom. xii: 12; Eph. vi:i8; Luke 
xviii-i; Matt. vi:6; xviii::9, 20. 

6. Patience. I Pet. 11:23. 
See Rom. xii;T2; Heb. xii:3. 

7. Love. John xv:9, 13; IJohniii:i6. 
See I John iii:i8, 23; iv:i9-2i. 

8. Use of Scripture. Luke xxiv.27; 
Matt. iv:4, 7, 10. 



See Eph. vi:i7; Ps. cxixtii; John v: 
39; ,Heb iv:i2. 

He is our model or pattern. Heb. viii: 

i-5- 

We are God's building. What a lovely 
model! What a perfect pattern! What a 
glorious purpose God has in us. Rom. 
viii: '9; I Cor xv:49. 

Our holiness consists in our being like 
Him. The slightest deviation is sin. 

Daily walk even as He. I John ii:6. 

Righteous even as He. I John iii. 7. 

Free from the world even as He. John 
xvii:6; I John iv: 17. 

Purity of life even as He. I John iii 13. 

Put on Christ. Rom. xiii: 14. 

Consider Christ. Heb. xii:3 f. c. 

Look to Christ. Heb. xii:i-3. 

Seek to know Christ. Phil. iii:lo-i4. 

Reflect Christ. II Cor. iii: 18 R. V. 



CHRIST "OUR EXAMPLE." 
Phil, ii.5-16. 
I. What He -was. 

1. Equality. Heb. 1:3; Col. i:i5. 

2. Power. Johnv:i8, 19; Col. i : 1 7 . 

3. Creator. John i:3; Col. i:i6. 

4. Wisdom. Col. ii:3. 

5. Love. Eph. iii: 18, 19. 

6. All. John i.i, 2. 

II. What He became. 

1. Servant, v. 7. . 

2. A man. v. 7. 

3. Humbled Himself, v. 8. 

4. Obedient, v. 8. 

5. Obedient unto death. Death of the 
Cross, v. 8. 

6. Emptied Himself, v. 7; Isa. lii:2, 3. 
The depth of His humiliation — 
Creator to manger. 

God to man. 

Throne to cross. 

Crown of glory to crown of thorns. 

Holiness to sin. 

Heaven to grave. 

Voluntary, v. 7; John x:i8; I Tim. ii:6. 

III. Why. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



155 



1. To please the Father. Ps. xl:7, 8. 

2. To seek and save the lost. Luke 
xix:io. 

j. To love sinners. I Tim. 1:15. 

4. To die for His enemies. Rom v. 
8, 10. 

5. To save from the curse. Gal. iii : 1 3 . 

6. To make poor rich. II Cor. viii 19. 

7. To bring us to God. I Pet. iii:i8. 

IV. What He is. v. 9. See Acts v: 
3o, 31 

A Prince and a Saviour. 
His death the ransom price. 
His resurrection the pledge of power. 
Heb. vii.25. 

He is before God, not as Son of God, 
but son of man. 

V. What He is still to be. vs. 10, II ; 
Isa. xlv23; Rev. v:i3; vii:9-i2. 

Lesson, Ps. ii:6-i2. 
Wherefore, vs. 9 and 12. Glory past. 
Humiliation. Glory future. 



MY LEADER. 

Leader. Does away with all independ- 
ence. 

Acknowledgment that I am following 
One whom I have confidence in. 

1. Who is my Leader? 

2. Christ given as Leader. Isa. lv;4. 
Type. Ex. xiii:2i, 22; xl. 34-38. 

He has gone before and says folio w nie. 
Whom He delivers He leads, and whom 
He leads He never leaves. See Ex. xv: 
13. 

3. Safe to follow. No matter what the 
circumstances. 

See Israel's safe protection under pillar 
of Cloud. Ps. lxxviii:53. See v. 14. 

4. No uncertainty. The pillar of light. 
Neh. ix:i2; John viii: 12. 

5. The way ~we should go. Isa. xlviii:i7. 
See Gen. xxiv:48 (27); Ps. cvii:7. 

6. Not according to our way. Ex. xiii: 
17, 18; Deut. iv;27; xxviii:36, 37; viii:2, 
3; Ezek. xxxix.28. 



7. Patiently as He tenderly leads. Neh. 
ix:iS-20. Jer. xxxi:g. See v. 3. 

As pilgrim strangers passing through 
this wilderness life, oh, how much we are 
indebted to our Leader. 

See Song Sol. viii:5; Hos. xiii:5; Jer. 
ii.2. 

My Prayer to My Leader. 

1. Plain path. Ps. xxvikn. 

2. According to Truth. Ps. xxv.5. 

3. And righteousness. Ps. v:8. See 
Prov. xviii.20; Ps. xxiii:3. 

4. Uprightly. Ps. cxliikio. 

5. High or heavenly way. Ps. Ui:2. 
See Mark ix:2. 

6. Everlasting way. Ps. cxxxix:24, 

7. Thy namesake. Ps. xxxi 3; Isa. 
lxiii :g-i4. 



THE LORD AS LEADER. 

BOOK OF ISAIAH. 

1. Given as Leader. Isa. lv:4. 

2. His ability. 

Counselor. Isa. vir.14; ix:6. 
Spirit of counsel. Isa. xi:2. 
Wonderful in counsel. Isa. xxviii:29. 
Read Isa. xki3, 14. 

3. His willingness. 

"Go before you." Yes, He has gone 
before, but eternity will be too short to 
tell all this means. Isa. Iii:i2. 

What a scene! What submission! Oh, 
what amazing love! "Led as a lamb to 
the slaughter." Isa. liii:7. cf. John x: 

3. 4- 11. 

4. Whom He leads. 

"I will lead him." Lead whom? Isa. 
Ivii:i8. See v. 9. 

Mark, the healing before the leading. 

18. 

"He shall lead them." Whom? Isa. 
xlix:io. See v. 9. 

'Mercy" first, out of bondage, out of 
darkness; then comes the leading and 
guiding. 

'Bring the blind." Picture of trust* 
dependence. Isa. xlii:i6. 



156 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Those burdened with great care. Isa. 
xl:n. 

Those passing through great affliction. 
Isa. xliii:2. 

Those who have come to old age. 
What comfort here! Cheer up, old friend! 
Isa. xlvi:4. 

5. Ho 10 He leads. 

The way not to go. Isa. viii:ii. 

"The way thou shouldst go." Isa. 
xlviii:i7. 

"Line upon line." "Precept upon pre- 
cept." Isa. xxviii:9, 10. 

"Restore comforts." Isa. Ivii:i8. 

"By springs of water." Isa. xlix:io. 

"I will make darkness light." Isa. xlii: 
16. cf. John viii:i2. 

"Gently lead " Isa. xl:ii. 

"I will hold Thy right hand." Isa. 
xli;io, 13. 

"Carry you." Isa xlvi - 4. cf. Deut. 
xxxiii:27 

"Guide Thee continually." cf. II Chron 
xxxii:22; Ps. xlviii:i4. "Satisfy the 
soul." Isa. lviii:ii. 

No want! cf. Ps, xxiiiri, 2, 3. Isa. 
xlviii:2i. 

Glory! "Faith lost in sight." Isa. 
xi:6. cf. Rev. vii:i7; Isa. xxxv;8-io. 

6. God expostulates. 

Wondrous mercy! Marvelous long suf- 
fering! Isa. xlviii:i7, 18. 

7. Man rebellious. 

What a sad. but true picture, of poor 
fallen humanity! Isa lxv.i, 2; i:2, 3. 

Friends, let us be honest — Does Fie 
lead, or does He not? Can we sing from 
the heart — "He Ieadeth me, O, blessed 
thought!" 

If so, oh, how glorious to follow such 
a leader! 

CHRIST OUR ROCK. 

1. Salvation. II Sam. xxir.47. 
Prepared. Luke ii: 29, 31. 
Brought to man . Titus ii : 1 1 . 
Of the Lord. Jonah ii :q ; Ps. iii:S. 



Acts iv:i2. 

See II Sam. xvii:20. Ps. 



None other 

Deliverance 
xl:i-4. 

Personal assurance. II Sam. ii ; 3 , xxii:4g. 

Living rock (or Saviour). The soul's 
anchor. Heb. vi:i9; Acts ii : 24; v:30, 
31; Rom. iv:25; v::o; I Cor. xv:i4, 20; 
Rom. x:g; Heb. vii.25; Acts xiii:32, 
37; I Pet. i:3-5 ; Job xix:25-27« See Rev. 
i:i8. 

2. Stability. Foundatio7i. Matt, vii: 
24, 25. 

None other. I Cor. Hi: n. 

Sure foundation. Isa. xxviii:i6. I Pet. 
ii:6, 8. 

Chief corner stone. Eph. ii'io,, 20. 

To the weak one. Ps. lxxiii:26, margin. 

We tremble on the rock, but the rock 
remains the same. 

3. Refzige. Ps. xciv:22. 

Only. Ps. xxviki, 5; lxii:i, 2, 5-8. 

Everlasting arms underneath. Deut. 
xxxiii-.27. , 

Banner over. Cant. ii:4. 

Angel encamped rotind about. Ps. 
xxxiv:7. 

Greater He, in you. I John iv.4. 

See Ps. cxxxix:i-i3. 

4. Shelter. Ps. lxi:2, 4. Our ark in 
the tempest. 

Job xxiv.8; Prov. xviii:io, i 133 ; Ps. 
xxiv:S; cxix:H4; lxxi:3. 

5. Plenty. Abundance to satisfy. Ex 
xvii:6. I Cor. x:4; Ps. xxxvr.7, 9; Isa 
lviii : 1 1 ; xlviii:2i, 17-18; John iv. 14. 

Note conditions. Compare. Gen. xxi 
19; Ps. lxxxivm. 

Live up to your income. II Cor. ix:8 
John vi:37, 39; Acts iii-4; iv:3i; Luke 
xi:i3. 

6. Strength. Ps. xxxi:2, 3 margin; Isa. 
xxvi:4 margin; Ps. xxviii:7, 8; Isa. xii:2,3. 

John xv:5, without me. 
Isa. xl:2S-3i; Phil. iv:i3, with me. 
Isa. xli:io, 13. 

I know Him. He is able. II Tim. 
i:i2. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



157 



His power Matt. xxviii:i8. 

7. Rest. Isa. xxxii:2. (1) Storm. We 
need protection in this sinful, sorrowful 
world of tempest. Christ our only covert. 

Spiritual fear, temptations, worldly care 
and losses, affliction. See Ps. xci:i-4, 
9; Ps. xxiii:i; Heb. iii : 1 7-iQ. 

Our need. Phil, iviio,. His wealth. 
Col. ii:3, 9. 

Rivers of water. Ps. xlvi:4; Isa. xli: 
17, etc. 

A rock in a weary land. Isa. xxxii :2. 

(2) Storm. See Gen. vii. Another 
storm is coming, who shall be able to stand 
the wind of His divine justice? Rev. vi: 
17. Those on the solid rock. I Cor. iii: 
11, and sheltered beneath the blood. 
Eph. i:7. 



CHRIST THE CORNER STONE. 

I. God's estimate. Isa. xxviii:i6; I 
Pet. ii:6; Eph. ii:2o; Matt. xvi:i6-i8. 

II. Man's estimate. Ps. cxviii: 22; 
Actsiv:ii; Matt. xxi:42; Isa. viii:i4. 

III. How came to be rejected. Rom. 
ix:3i-33; I Pet. ii: 7 , 8. 

IV. Result. Dan. ii:34, 35, 45; Matt. 
xxr.42-44; Lukexx:i7, 18. 

V. Lessons. Matt, vii 124, 27. I Cor. 
iii: 10-15. 



PRECIOUS STONE OR ROCK OF 
OFFENCE. 

PRECIOUS. 

Desirable. Ezra viii:27. 
Rare. I Sam. iii: 1 ; Prov. iii: 15; Isa. 
xxviii:i6. 

Held in honor. I Pet. ii:4. 
Preciousness. I Pet. ii:6. 
Reverenced. I Pet. ii 17. 
Precious. I Pet. i:7; II Pet. 1:4. 
Priceless. I Pet. i:i9. 

OFFETsXE. 

Anything that man finds in his way that 
may cause him to stumble, sin. Eccl. x:4. 
Stumbling. Isa viii:4. 



Stumbling blocks. Matt. xvi:23; Gal. 
v:4; I Pet. ii:6. 

Falling away. Rom. v:i5. 
Guilt. Hos. v:;5, margin. 



PRECIOUS BUILDING. 

Precious Jewels — sinners quarried from 
the pit of sin. Built upon the Rate Foun- 
dation. I Cor. iii: 1 1. 

Cemented together with the Precious 
Blood of Christ. Heb. ix:i2. 

Occupied with Him who is the Honor- 
able, reverent, rare, precious, priceless 
Saviour. Col. iii: 1-3. 

Precious House. Eph. ii:2o-22. 

Offence. His humiliation, birth, pov- 
erty, life, death. Rock of offence. See 
Isa. liii:2, 3. 

The same magnet has two poles, the 
one repulsive, the other attractive. 

The rejectors now will be rejected 
then. Matt. xxi:42~44. 



GOD'S UNSPEAKABLE GIFT. 

II Cor. ix:i5; John iii:i6. 

Promised. Isa. ix:6. 

Fulfilled. Luke ii:io, II. (The gift 
not completed yet.) 

Completed. Rom v:6-8. 

Christ gave Himself. Matt. xxvi:5l- 
54. John x:n; Eph. v:25. Gal. 1:4; 
Gal. ii:2o; I Tim. ii:6; Titus 11:14. 

A Free gift. Made free by the price 
which was paid. Rom. v. 15-18. 

Market of grace. God's free unmerited 
favor. How anxious to give. Isa.lv: 1,2. 
Do not be afraid that you cannot come 
up to the price; you have to come down. 
"Whosoever will, let him take." 

Wycliffe, "Lord save me gratis." See 
also Ps. Ixviii:i8, 19. 

So?)ie of the blessings included in this 
unspeakable gift. 

1. Repentance. Acts v:3i ; notice 
verse 30, also, and Eph. ii; 8. 9. 

2. Pardon. Acts v:3i; xiir.38; Luke 
vii:4i, 42. 



*5' 



NOTES FOR BIELE READINGS. 



3. Life. Eternal. Rom. vi:23; I John 
v:i 1 : John x:28. 

4. Power to become Sons of God. 
John i:i2; I John iii : 1-3. 

5. Rest. Matt. xi:2S. 

6. Peace. John xiv:27. 

7. The Holy Ghost, the Comforter. 
John xiv:i6; Luke xi:i3; Acts v 132; I 
Cor. ii: 12. 

8. All things. Rom.viii:32; II Pet. i: 

3, 4- 

9. The desires of thy heart. Ps. xxxvii: 

4. Mark the condition. 

10. Whatsoever. John xvi:23. "In 
my name." I John. v:i4, 15. 

11. Victory at death. I Cor xv:57. 

12. Gifts in glory. Rev. ii:7, 10, 17, 
26,28; II Tim. iv:8; Rev. vi:ii; Rev. 
xxi:6; xxii:5; xx:ii, 12. 



WHY JESUS CAME INTO THE 
WORLD. 

Mark x:45. To ?ninister. 

John v.43. Came in His Father's 
name. 

John vi.43 Came to do His Father's 
will. 

Matt. v:i7. Came to fulfil all the law. 

John xii:46; iii: 19. Came as a light to 
the world. 

John x:io. Came that we might have 
life. 

Luke ix:56. Came not to destroy but 
to save, 

Luke xix:io; I Tim. i : 1 5 . Came to 
save sinners. ' 

Matt. ix:i3, Came to call sinners to 
repentance. 

John xii:47. Came to save the tvorld. 

John xii:27. Came to suffer. 

John xviii:37. Came to bear witness 
unto the truth. 

I John iii:8. Came to destroy the 
works of the Devil. 



UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF 
CHRIST. 

Eph. iii:8-io. 



1. Rich in wisdom and knowledge. 
Rom. xi:33. 

2. Rich in mercy. Eph. ii.4; Ps. xxxvi:5. 

3. Rich in goodness. Rom. ii:4. 

4. Rich in grace. Eph. i:7 (also v. 3), 
Eph. ii:7. 

5. Rich to all. Rom x:i2. 

6. Rich in love. II Cor. viii:g; Eph. 
iii. 19. 

7. Rich in glory. Rom. ix:23; Eph. 
iii:i6; Phil, iv.19; Col. i:27; Eph. i:i8. 

Take up the song ! Rev. v:9-i2. 

"ME." 

1. Cometh unto me, nowise cast out. 
John vi:37. 

2. Look unto me, be saved. Isa. xlv: 
22. 

3. Come unto me. Rest. Matt, xi: 
28. 

4. Believeth in me. Everlasting life. 
John vi:47- 

5. Cometh unto me. Never hunger. 
John vi:35. 

6. Abide in me. What ye will. John 
xv : 7. 

7. Follow me Manifold now and in 
the world to come. Luke xviii:22-30. 

8. Be with me. Behold my glory. 
John xvii:24. 

9. Without me. Do nothing. John 
xv:5. 

JESUS. 

When loaded down with the guilt of 
sin, Jesus is our Sin Bearer. I Pet. ii: 24. 

When condemned on account of guilt, 
Jesus is our Justification. Rom. iv:25: I 
Cor. vim. 

When in bondage because of sin, Jesus 
is our Redeemer. Eph. i:7; Heb. ix:i2. 

When troubled with sin by the way, 
Jesus is our Advocate. I John ii: 1 - 

When weighed down by heavy burdens, 
Jesus is our Burden-Bearer. Matt xi:28. 

When perplexed, Jesus is our Counsel- 
lor. Isa. ix:6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



159 



When friendless, Jesus is our Friend. 
John xv:i5; Prov. xviii:24. 

When homeless, Jesus is our Abiding 
Place. Ps. xxvii:5. R. V. 

When sad, Jesus is our Joy. John xvi: 
20-24. 

When sorrowful, Jesus is our Comfort. 
II Thess. ii:i6, 17. 

When weak, Jesus is our Strength. II 
Cor. xii:io. 

When in storms, Jesus is our Peace. 
John xvi:33. 

When in danger, Jesus is our Refuge. 
Ps. xlvi:i; Ps. ix:g. 

When ignorant, Jesus is our Wisdom. 
I Cor. i:3o. 

When in darkness Jesus is our Light. 
I Pet. ii:9; John xii:46. 

When in doubt, Jesus is our Hope. 
Heb. vi: 17-20; I Pet. i:3. 

W T hen weary, Jesus is our Rest. Matt. 
xi:28, 29. 

When poor, Jesus is our Riches. II 
Cor. viii:g. 

REMEMBER JESUS. 
Re7iumber. 

1. His mission to the world. Luke 
xix:io; iv:i8. 

2. His incarnation. John i:i4. 

3. His humiliation. Phil. ii:6 8; R. V. 
John xiii:4, 5. 

4. His early piety. Luke ii:4g. 

5. His obedience to parents. Luke ii: 

SI- 

6. His victory over temptation. Heb. 
iv:i5. 

7. His zeal for God's worship. Ps. 
lxix:9. 

S. His practice of private prayer. Luke 
vi:i2. 

9. His contentment. Luke ix:5S. 

10. His self-denial. Phil. ii:8. 

11. His compassion. Matt. xx:34. 

12. His grief for the sins of others. 
Mark iii : 5 . 

13. His forgiveness. Luke xxiii:34. 



14. 
good. 

15. 

Matt. 
16. 
19. 

17. 

18. 

20. 
21. 
22. 

23- 
24. 



His unwearied activity in doing 

Actsx:3S. 
His submission to the will of God. 
xxvi:39. 
His love to the brethren. John xv: 

His Word. John xiv:26. 
His Work. John iv:34; ix:4. 
His Death. I Cor. xi:26. 
His Resurrection. I Cor. xv.20. 
His Ascension. Acts i 19-1 1. 
His Advocacy. I John ii:i. 
His Glory. Johnxvii:5. 
His Coming. Matt. xxv:i3. 



"THE CHILD JESUS." 

Isa. ix:6, 7. 

1. V. 6. Unto us. Isa. vii:i4; John 
iv:25; Rom. ix:5; Luke ii 14, n. 

A child. Luke ii : 7. A man. Luke ii: 
4°, 52; iii:23; John iv.29. 

A son. Son of man. John v:27; Son 
of God. Luke iii:22. 

Given. John iii:26; II Cor. ix: 1 5 ; 
John i:n. 

II. Government. Not only to save but 
to rule. Ps. lxxxix;i-8; Matt. xxviii:i8; 
Eph. i:2i, 22. 

III. His Name. 1. Wonderful. 
Judges xiii: [7 18; Isa. xxviii:29; I Tim. 
iii: 1 6. 

Wonderful birth, condescension, com- 
passion, wisdom, life, death, resurrection. 

2. Counsellor. Prov. viii: 14; I Cor. 
i:3o; Col. ii 13 ; Rom. xi:33-36; Jas. i:5; 
Ps xxxii:8. 

3. The mighty God. Ps. xlv:3; Matt. 
i : 2 3 ; Luke i:47, 76; John i: 1 -3 ; xx:28; 
Rom. ix:s; Heb. i:8: Rev. i:8. 

4. The Everlasting Father. Prov. viii: 
27; Isa. xl:28: John viii: 58; xiv:6-n; x: 
30; Col. i: 17 ; ii :q ; I Tim. vi:i4-i6; Heb. 
1:2, 3. 

5. The Prince of Peace. Ps. lxxii:7; 
Luke ii: 14; John xiv:27; Actsx:36; Eph. 
ii:i4; Col. i:20, 21 ; Rom. v:i; II Thess. 
iii: 1 6. 



i6o 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



IV. Government and Peace Everlast- 
ing, v. 7. Ps. ii:8; Ps. lxxii:S; cxlv;i3; 
Dan. ii;44 ; Dan. iv:3; vir.14, 18, 27; I 
Cor. xv:2;; Rom. xi:i5. 

V. Relation to Israel. Isa. xxii:22; 
Micahivij; Luke i:32, 33. 

VI. Established in Righteousness. A 
righteous King. A righteous Kingdom 
governed by righteous laws founded upon 
righteousness. II Sam. vii:i6; I Pet. 
iv:n; Rev. iii:7. 

What think ye of Christ? John viii: 
24; Phil. ii:o, it. 

"IT IS WRITTEN." 

OF CHRIST. 

i. Concerning His birth. Luke iii:4; 
Matt. ii:5. 

2. Concerning His fulfilling the law. 
Luke ii:23. 

3. Concerning His temptation. Luke 
iv:4, 8, 10, 12. 

4. Concerning His obedience to the 
Father. Heb. x:7. 

5. Concerning His suffering. Matt. 
xvi:2i ; Mark ix:i2. 

6. Concerning His death. Matt, xxvi: 
24; xiv:2i. 

7. Concerning His resurrection. Acts 
xiii:30-37. 

See Matt. xxiv:44, 46; Luke xxiv:27; 
Gal. iii : 5 . 



"JESUS HIMSELF." 

He is God and man; real God and real 
man. The living and personal and ever 
present I Am. Not a Spirit, not a Doc- 
trine, not a Creed, not an Idea, not an 
abstract', not an influence, but the Living 
Christ. 

The center figure of the universe. 

The center of history. 

The center of the Bible, 

The center of eternity. 

A person, Jesus Himself. 

The object of Revelation. John v:39; 
Luke xxiv:27. 



The office of the Spirit. John xv:26; 
xvi:i3, 14. 

And yet not many of us like the disciples. 
See Mark vi:49, 5°; John xx:24-27; Luke 
xxiv:9-ii, 17, 21, 25. 

We see Him as 

1. Kinsman (Immanuel). Gal. iv:4; 
Lukeii:i2; Matt. viii:i7; Heb. ii:i4"i8; 
John i:i4; I Tim. iii:i6. See Rom. 
viii:3. 

2. Ransom. I Tim ii:6; See Ps. xlix: 
6-8; Job xxxiii:24. 

3. Sin Bearer. Heb. ix:26; John i:29;. 
Heb. vir.27; ix:26; I Pet. ii:24. See Col. 
1:20; Eph. ii:i4, 15, margin; Luke xxiv: 
26. 

4. Redeemer. Titus ii: 14; Eph. i:6, 7: 
I Pet. i:i8, 19; Heb. ix:ii, 12. 

5. The Personal Saviour. Gal. ii:2o;. 
See Dan. ix:26; Matt. xxvii:42; John 
xviii:8. 

6. The Foundation of the Church .. 
Eph. ii:2o; Matt. xvi:i8; Isa. xxviii:i6; 
I Pet. ii:6; I Cor. iii: 11. See Eph. ir.14- 
16, margin, and 19-22. 

7. The Hope of the Church. John 
xiv:i-4; Acts i:ii; I Thess. iv:i6. 



"JESUS HIMSELF." 

The Past. Jesus Himself on the cross. 
Redemption. 

The Present. Jesus Himself with the 
Father. Access, 

The Future. Jesus Himself coming 
again. Glory. 



PRACTICAL. 

Gal. i:4. For what. What for. Ac- 
cording to what. 

Titus ii: 14. From what. For what. 
Unto whom. 

Eph. v:2 5-27. For what. What. For 
whom. 

See Eph. i:i8; Col. iii:4; II Thess. 1: 
10-12. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



161 



HIMSELF. 

1. He expounded unto them in all the 
Scriptures the things concerning Himself. 
Luke xxiv:27- 

2. Himself took our infirmities. Matt. 
viii : 17; I Tim. iii:i6; Heb. ii : 1 -4-1 S. 

3. Who gave Himself a ransom for all. 
I Tim. ii:6. 

4. Who gave Himself for us. Titus 
ii:i4- 

5. Who gave Himself for me. Gal. ii: 
20. 

6. Who gave Himself for our sins. 
Gal. i:4. 

7. Put away sin by the sacrifice of 
Himself. Heb. ix:26. 

See Matt. xxvii:42; I Pet. ii:24; Eph 
ii:i9, 22. 



SEVEN I WILLS OF CHRIST. 

1. I will give you rest. Matt, xi-28. 

2. I will in no wise cast out. John vii: 
37. See Luke xv:2. 

3. I will, be thou clean. Luke v: 12, 13. 

4. I will confess you before my Father. 
Matt. x:32. 

See Rom. x:g. John iv.29; Mark v:ig, 
20; Luke viii:39, 4°: John ix:22. 

5. I will make you fishers of men. Matt. 
iv:Tq. See Luke xiv:25, 33; Matt. iv:22, 
etc.; Matt. xix:2i ; Luke ix:57-62; Luke 
ix:23; See Luke v.i-u; John xxi:ig> 
22. 

6. I will pray the Father and He will 
give you another comforter. John xiv: 
16 

Our Teacher. John xiv: 26. 
Our Guide. John xvi:i3. • 

Our Power. Luke xxiv:49; Acts i:8; 
ii: 1 ; iv:3i. 

Forever. John xiv:i6. 
See Acts xix:2. 

7. I will come again. John xiv:3. See 
John vi:4o; I Thess. iv.13, etc. 

Judgment. II Cor. v:io. 
Reward. I John iii : 1-2 ; Rev. xxii:i2 
Glory. Col. iii : -4 ; Rum. viii:i8-22. 
11 



CHRIST ALL IN ALL 

IX HIS OFFICIAL CHARACTER. 

1. Prophet, i. e., Teacher. One who 
speaks for God to man. Ex. iv:i6; vii:i. 

2. Priest. One who acts for men with 
God. Ex. xix:22; Heb. v:i. 

3. King. One who rules over men for 
God. II Sam. xxiii:3; Rom xiii:i. 

He is our peace. The past all answered 
for. Eph. ii: 14. 

He is our life. The present all pro- 
vided for. Col. iii:4. 

He is our hope. The future all secured. 
I Tim. i:i. 



FIVE FOLD CIRCLE AROUND 
THE SAVIOUR. 

I. The Outer Circle. I. Service. The 
seventy. Luke x:i-20. 

II. The Second Circle. 2. Self-denial. 
The twelve. Matt. x:i"7, 22, 24, 28, 40; 
Matt, v.i, 2. What they knew of Him. 
Mark iv:34; three years' acquaintance, 
constantly with Him. See Luke vi:3i; 
xiv:33. 

III. The Third Circle. 3. Obedience. 
The favored three. Mark v:37. 

Draught of fishes. Luke v:i-i2. 

On the mount. Matt. xvii:i-i7. 

In the garden. Mark. xiv:32, 33. 

Eye witnesses of His suffering. 

Eye witnesses of His glory. 

See Luke ix:22, 23; II Tim. ii:i2; 
Rom. viii: 1 7, 18; I Pet. i:i6-2i. What 
wonderful intimacy. 

IV. The Fourth Circle. 4. Self sacri- 
fice. The Bethany Hoine. John xi. 

1. Sent unto Him. John xi.3. 

2. He whom thou lovest is sick. John 
xi:3. 

3. Now Jesus loved Mary, Martha and 
Lazarus. John xi:5. 

4. Our friend Lazarus. John xi:n. 

5. What intimacy and knowledge. 
John xi:20, 21. See 23, 27. 

6. Jesus wept. John xi:35; Why? v 
36. 



162 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



7. They make Him a supper. John 
xii:2. 

8. Martha served. John xii:2. 

9. Lazarus sat with Him. John xii"2: 
10. Mary anointed His feet. What 

humility. What self-sacrifice. John xii:3. 

V. The Fifth or Inner Circle. 5. Hu- 
mility. One whom Jesus loved, John. 

Love begets love. Three kinds of love 
in the Scriptures. 

God's love to the sinner. 

Christ's love to the church. 

The church's love for Christ. 

See John xxi:23. Wonderful repro- 
ducing love. 

John traded in love. Where did he get 
such love ? See Him on the bosom of the 
Master. All these circles have Him for 
their center. Which are we in ? Lost in 
Him. See Eph. i:6. 



WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? 

1. As the Son. Luke ii:49- 

2. The Servant. Phil. ii:6-8. 

3. The Saviour. Mark vii:24-37. Note 
v. 24, 1. c. 

4. The Sent of God. Matt, xvi: 15-18. 

5. The Leader. Mark viii:34; ix*i. 
Note the demands, v. 34. 

6. The Glorified. Mark ix:2-i3. 
What a deputation. V. 4. 
What a testimony. V. 7. 
What a glory. Matt, xvii.2. 

7. The Mighty Deliverer. Mark ix: 
14-32. 

"Bring him to me." 

What dignity! Majesty! Authority! V. 

25. 

8. The Model Man. Mark ix:33-50. 



WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? 

What others thought of Him. 

Abraham. The Covenant One. Gen. 
xxii:i3-i4; John viii:s6 

Moses. Prophet, Teacher. Deut. xviii 
15, 18. 



Hannah. Unchanging, faithful, friend. 
I Sam. ii:2, 6, 7, 8, 9. 

Elijah. Hearer and answerer of prayer. 

I K i ngs xviii :37. 

Job. Redeemer (Living). Job xix: 
25. 

David. The soul's need. Ps. xviii:2; 
xxvii:i; xxiii:i. 

Solomon. Chief. Altogether lovely. 
Sol. v.10, 16. 

Isaiah. Wonderful Saviour. Isa. ix:2; 

liii:3- 

Daniel. Humble and exalted Saviour. 
Dan. ix:26; vii:i3, 14. 

Ezekiel. Shepherd. Ezek. xxxiv:i 1. 

Jeremiah. The Lord our righteousness. 
Jer. xxiii:6. 

Jonah. Salvation. Jonah ii:7, 9. 

Peter. The Divine Saviour. Matt, 
xvi: 16. 

Judas. Innocent. Matt. xxvii:4. 

Pilate. Just man. Matt. xxvii:24. 

Pilate's wife. Just man. Matt xxvii : 
19. 

Simeon. Promised Messiah. Luke ii: 
30. 

Herod. Not worthy of death. Luke 
xxiii:i5. 

Thief. Nothing amiss. Luke xxiii:4i. 

Centurion. Righteous man. Luke 
xxiii:47. 

Woman of Samaria. The Christ. John 
iv:29. 

Soldiers. Never man spake like this 
man. John vii:46. 

Thomas. Lord and God. John xx:28. 

Paul. Fulness of God. Col. i : 1 9- 
Creator. Col. i:i6. 

James. Wisdom. Jas. v:20.' 

John. True God — eternal life. John 
V.20. 

Enoch. Righteous Judge. Jude 14, 
15. 

The Father. Beloved Son. Matt, hi: 
17; Luke ix: 35. John xii:28. 

Himself. Before Abraham was I Am. 
John viii:58. See Rev. i:8, 18. 



NOTES FOR BILiLE HEADINGS. 



63 



THE CHRIST. 

1. What think ye of Christ? Matt 
xxii:42. 

2. Found the Christ. John i:4i. The 
Promised Saviour. 

3. Is not this the Christ ? John iv:2C). 
The Divine Saviour. 

4. The Christ of God. Mark viii:2g; 
Luke ix:20; Matt. xvi:i6. The church's 
foundation. 

5. This is indeed the Christ. John iv: 
42. The Saviour of the world. 

6. Thou art the Christ, the Son of the 
Living God. John vi:6g. The only 
refuge. 

7. What shall I do then with Jesus the 
Christ? Matt. xxvii:22. The crucified 
Saviour. 

8. Thou art the Christ, the Son of God 
which should come into the world. John 
xi:27. The risen Saviour. 

9. The very Christ. Actsix:22. The 
sinner's Saviour. 

10. Jesus the Christ. Johnxx:3i. The 
Saviour of the Scriptures. 

11. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is 
the Christ, is born of God. I John v:i. 
John i:i2, 13. The life-giving Saviour. 

12. If ye believe not that I am He, ye 
shall die in your sins. Johnviii:24. The 
only Saviour. 



RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. 

Its meaning to the Believer. 

1. The fact. See the sorrowful proces- 
sion, the sepulchre, the seal, the weeping- 
Marys. Who shall roll away the stone. 
Matt. xxviii:2. 

2. He is not here, but has risen. Matt, 
xxviii :6. I am He that liveth and was 
dead. . Rev. i: 1 8. 

Christianity's challenge. 
The great government seal of heaven. 
The keystone to the great triumphal 
gospel arch. 

God's emancipation proclamation. 



Go ye into all the world and preach the 
gospel. Mark xvi:i5. 
Seven great truths. 

1. Life and salvation. Rom. v:io. 
Heb. vii:25. 

2. Justification. Rom. iv:25; v:i. 

3. Faith. John xx:^y; I Cor. xv: 17. 

4. Access. Heb. x:iq, 22. 

5. Security. Heb. vii:22, 27; Rom. 
xiv:7, S. 

6. Pledge. Eph. i: 13, 14; II Cot. i: 
22; John xiv:i6, 19. 

7. Hope. I Pet. i:3-5 ; Col. iii:4; I Cor. 
xv:i9, 20; I Thess. iv:i4. 

Our responsibility, because of. Col. 
iii:i-3. 



JESUS' RISEN. 

John xx:i-i8. 

The funeral. Johnxix:38. The burial. 
John xix 139-42; Matt. xxvii:6i ; Luke xxiii: 
55; Mark xv.47. 

The last act of man is this great moral 
drama. Matt. xxvii:62, 64, 66. 

Preparation for the anointing. Mark 
xvi:i; Luke xxiii:56. In faith. Mark 
xvi:3; John xx:n. 

The fact of the Resurrection. Acts 
xiii:28-34; Actsi:3. 

Proof of it. 

1. To Mary Magdalene. Johnxx:i-i6. 

2. To the women. Matt. xvviii:5, 9-10. 

3. To Peter. Lukexxiv:34; I Cor. xv:5. 

4. To two disciples. Luke,xxiv:i3, 35. 

5. To ten of the disciples. John xx: 
26, 29. 

6. To seven of the disciples. John xxi: 
1,24. 

7. To eleven disciples. Matt, xxviii: 
16-20. 

8. To five hundred brethren. I Cor. 
xv : 6. 

9. To James. I Cor. xv:7. 

10. To all disciples. Luke xxiv:5o; 
Acts i:3-T2. 

"His." Six Great Facts. 



64 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



1. Birth links God with man. John 
i:i4; Phil. ii:6, 7. 

2. Life proves possibility of holiness. 
I Pet. i:i5. 

3.* Work proves His divine power. 
John v:i7-23. 

4. Death proves His eternal love. Rev. 
\:5; Eph. v:25. 

5. Resurrection proves finished work. 
Wjd. i: 3 . 

6. Ascension links man with God. Col. 
1:19-22; ii:i2, 15. 

What was dependent upon the resur- 
rection of Christ ? 

1. Proof of inspiration of Scriptures. 
John xx :g; 1 Cor. xv:4; Ps. xvi:io; 
Matt. xii:39, 42; Actsii:2g-32; Acts xiii: 

32-37- 

2. Proof of His divinity. Rom. i:4; 
/Vets xiii: 30-35. 

3. Proof or pledge of the completeness 
bf the atonement. Heb. ix:n, 12; iv: 
14; ix:24, 26; John xx;i7; Heb x:i2- 
14; I Cor. xv:i7; Rom. viii:32-34. 

4. Possibility of salvation. Acts v:30, 
31; xiii:23; Acts iv: 12; Matt. 1:21. 

5. Certainty of justification and peace. 
Rom. iv:25; v:i. 

6. Certainty of heaven. John xiv:2, 3; 
I Pet. i: 3-5 ; John xr.25, 26; xiv:i9. See 
John v:29; Rev. xx:5, 6. 

7. Certainty of our own resurrection. I 
Cor. xv:i5-2o; Johnxiv:i9; I Thess.iv.14. 

8. Assurance of adoption and family 
relationship. Rom. viii: 5,16. 

Johnxx;i7, I.e. Brethren, my Father, 
your Father. 

I Cor. The Believer dead, buried, 
risen, living with Christ now. On resur- 
rection side of grave. He the living head, 
we living members. 

All of this intended to inspire hope. 
Rom. viir.19-25; Heb. VK17-20. 

A solemn truth. Resurrection of dead. 
Acts xvii:30, 31; Actsxxiv:i5. 

What dead? John v:28, 29. 

1. Resurrection into life. Life eternal. 



2. Resurrection into death. Death 
eternal. 

Which shall it be? See Luke xx:35, 
36; Rev. xx:6, 7-15. 



CHRIST— RIGHTEOUSNESS. 

Christ "the Lord our righteousness." 
Jer. xxiii:6. 

Christ " the righteous one." Christ 
"the holy one." Christ " the just one." 
Acts vii:52; iii:i 4. 

Christ "the sun of righteousness." 
Mai. iv.2. 

Christ "the righteous branch." Jer, 
xxiii:5. 

Christ "the righteous servant." Isa. 
liii : 1 1 . 

Christ "the righteous judge." II Tim. 
iv:8. 

Christ "wears righteousness as a breast- 
plate." Isa. lix- 1 7. 

Christ uses a " scepter of righteous- 
ness." Psa. xlv:6; Heb. i:8. 

Christ after the order of Melchizedec, a 
"King of righteousness and of peace." 
Heb. vii:i, 2. 

Christ's righteousness "like the great 
mountains" towering and majestic. Ps. 
xxxvi:6. 



"HIS NAME." 

Every truth and every blessing is con- 
nected with "His name," and as an illus- 
tration of this, look at the following Scrip- 
tures where His name is referred to, and 
notice the truths in connection there- 
with. 

1. Separated to His name. Actsxv:i4.. 

2. Sonship through faith in His name. 
Johni:i2. 

3. Salvation in His name. Matt. i:2i. 

4. Suffering for His name. Acts v:4l. 

5. Separated by His name. II Tim. 
ii: 19. 

6. Submission to His name. II Thess. 
i:i2. 

7. Service in His name. Rev. ii : 3 . 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



165 



Then think of the character of His 
name. It is "great," Ps. xcix 3; "holy,' 
Isa 1 \- i i : : 5 ; "everlasting-," Isa. Ixiii : 1 2 
"glorious," Isa. Ixiii 114; "exalted," Phil 
ii :q ; "t-xcellent," Heb. i:.|; "worthy,' 
Jas. ii:;; "enduring," Ps. Ixxii:i7; "pleas 
ant," Ps. cxxxv:3; a " strong tower,' 
Prov. xviii:io; "as ointment poured 
forth," Song of Sol i:3. Well might 
His name be called "wonderful." Won- 
derful because — 

Wisdom He is. I Cor. i:3o; Col. ii 13. 

Offering He gave. Heb. M14. 

Name He bears. Isa. ix:6. 

Deeds He did. Luke iv:22. 

Example He is. I Pet. ii:2i. 

Riches he gives. Eph. 1:7; Phil. iv:ic). 

Food He provides. John vi:55. 

Upholding He is. Ps. xxxvii:i7. 

Love He manifests I John iv:i7, 
margin. 

F. E. Marsh. 



CHRIST PERSECUTED AND 
GLORIFIED. 

C rowned with thorns. John xix:2. 
H ated without a cause. John xv:25. 
R eproached. Rom. xv:3. 
1 n derision of all people. ^Lam. iii:i4. 
Scourged. Johnxix:i. 
T ormented for our transgressions. Isa. 
liii:5 (marg.) 

P ut to grief. Isa. liii:io. 

E ndured contradiction of sinners. 

Heb. xii:3. 
R eviled by men. I Pet. i i : 2 3 . 
S mote and spit upon. Mark xv:ig; 

xiv:65< 
E steemed not. Isa., liii:?. 
C ruelly mocked, and smitten. Luke 

xxii:63, 64. 
U nto His own family an alien and 

stranger. Ps. lxix:S; John vii:". 
T hrust out of the city. Luke iv:2o,. 
E ntirely forsaken. Mark xiv:5C 
D espised and rejected. Isa. liii : 3 . 



C rowned with glory. Heb. ii :Q. 

H eir of all things. Heb. i:2. 

R eceiving adoration and worship. 

Rev. v:o, to end. 
I n Him all fullness of the Godhead. 

Col. ii :q. 
S et at God's right hand. Eph. i:20. 
T he Father loveth the Son, and hath 

given all things into His hand. 

John iii:35. 
G od also hath highly exalted Him. 

Phil. ii:g, 10, 11. 
L ord of Lords. Rev. xvii:i4. 

ver all blessed forever. Rom. ix:5. 
R uler of His people. Micah v:2. 

1 mage of the invisible God. Col. i: 1 5 . 
F irst and last. Rev. i:i7- 

I ntercessor. Heb. vii:25. 

E verlasting Father. The Prince of 

Peace. Isa. ix:6. 
D esire of all nations. Hag. ii 17 . 
Mrs. A F. Peacock. 

BEHOLD. 
To fix the eyes upon — to see with atten- 
tion — to observe with care- to consider. 

1. Behold a virgin shall conceive and 
bear a son, and thou shalt call His name 
Emmanuel. Isa. vii:i4. 

2. Behold, God is mighty, and despis- 
eth not any. Job xxxvr.5 . 

3. Behold, God is my salvation; I will 
* * not be afraid. Isa. xii:2. 

4. Behold the man. John xix:5; I Tim. 
ii : 5 , 6. 

5. Behold the man whose name is the 
Branch. Zech. vi:i2; iii : 8 . 

6. Behold My servant whom I uphold; 
Mine elect, in whom My soul delighteth. 
Isa. xlii: . 

7. Behold the Lamb of God, who tak- 
eth away the sin of the world. John i: 
29. 

8. He is risen; behold the place where 
they laid Him. Mark xvi:6. 

9. Behold My hands and My feet, it is 
I. Luke xxiv:39. 



i66 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



io. Behold I send the promise of My 
Father upon you. Luke xxiv:49. 

ii. Behold, I stand at the door and 
knock. Rev. iii:2o. 

12. Behold, I come as a thief; blessed 
is he that watcheth. Rev. xvi:i5- 

13. Behold, I come quickly; blessed is 
he that keepeth the sayings of the proph- 
ecy of this book. Rev. xxii:7 

14. Behold, thy King cometh. Zech. 
iix:$; Matt.xxi:5; Rev. xix: n-16. 

15. Behold, He cometh with clouds, 
and every eye shall see Him. Rev. 1:7. 

"His eyes behold, His eyelids try the 
children of men." Ps. xr.4. 

1. "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, 
and in sin did my mother conceive me." 
Ps. li:5. 

2. "Behold, now is the accepted time — 
now is the day of salvation." II Cor. vi: 
2. 

3. " Behold what manner of love the 
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we 
should be called the sons of God." I John 
iii:i. 

4. Behold, thou art all fair, my love, 
there is no spot in thee. Cant. i:i 5. 

5. Behold, how good and how pleasant 
[t is for brethren to dwell together in 
unity. Ps. cxxxiii:i. 

6. Behold, the eye of the Lord is over 
them that fear Him. Ps. xxxiikiS. 

7. Behold, I am with thee, and will 
keep thee. Gen. xxviir.15. 

We all, with open (unveiled) face be- 
holding as in a glass the glory of God the 
Lord, are changed into the same image 
from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit 
of the Lord. II Cor. iii:i8. 

Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 



" WHO IS THIS ?" 
Matt. xxi:io. " And when He was 
come into Jerusalem, all the city was 
moved, saying, 'Who is this?' " 

1. The promised seed, etc. Gen. iii: 
15. 



2. The promised Shiloh. Gen. xlix:io. 

3. The Righteous Branch. Jer. xxiiu 

5- 

4. Immanuel. Isa. vii:i4, 

5. To be of Bethlehem. Micah v:2. 

6. Was to perform wonderful works. 
Isa. xlii:7. 

7. A Person of Infinite Dignity. John 
1:14 18; Johniii:i6; Lukei:35; Col. i: 14- 
18; Heb. iii. 4; I Tim. iii: 16. 

8. Only Mediator between God and 
man. I Tim. ii: 5 . 

9. Only Redeemer of sinners. Acts iv: 
1 . 

10. Head of the church. Ps. ii:6; 
Luke i:32. 

1 1 . The fountain of Spiritual life. John 
x:28. 

12. Judge of the world. John v.22; 
Rev. xx:i2. 

13. We must see Him in sorrow or joy. 
I John iii: 1-3; Rev. vi:i-7; Rev. i:7; John 
xix:37; I Thess. iv.16-18. 

14. Will be the theme of the blood- 
washed throng in heaven. Rev. i:5, 6; 
Rev. vii:g-i7. 

Will you unite in "the new song"? 
Jesus is worthy of our entire consecration. 
Rom. xii-.i; JJebxii:i,2. 

Rev. W. M. Grimes, M. A. 



"GOD'S BENEFITS." 

Ps. ciii. 

I. Benefit of Forgiveness. The soul's 
first need. 

1. Need of this benefit. Ps. xc:8. 

2. Forgiveness with God. Ps. cxxx:4 

3. Ground of forgiveness. Prov. xxviii: 
13; Isa. lv:7; I John K9. 

4. Extent of forgiveness. V. 12. 

5. Personal forgiveness. Isa. xliv:22. 

6. Present forgiveness. V. 3. I John 
ii: 12. 

7. Cost of this great benefit. Isa. liii: 
5, 6; I Pet. i:i8, 19. 

II. Benefit of Healing. Forgiveness 
is a great blessing, but we need more. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



167 



1. Need of healing. Isa. i:6. 

2. The great physician. Luke iv:i8. 

3. His power. Ex. xv.26 1. c. 

4. His compassion. Matt. xx:34. 

5. His sympathy. John xi:35. 

6. Present benefit, v. 2. See I Pet 
ii:24. 

7. Complete benefit, v. 3. All. 

III. Ben,: fit of redemption. This is 
the keystone of all God's benefits. 

1. Ransom paid. I Tim. ii:6. 

2. Redemption secured. Eph i:6. 

3. Present redemption. Col. 1:14. 

4. Eternal redemption. Heb. ix:i2. 

5. From law. Gal. iii: 1 3. 

6. From death. Hos. xiii: 14. 

7. From all iniquity. Titus ir.14. 

IV. Crowning benefit. - 

1. Loving kindness, v. 4. 

2. Tender mercies, v. 4. 

3. Crown of righteousness. II Tim. 
iv:8. 

4. Crown of life. Rev. ii:io. 

5. Crown of glory. I Pet. v:4. 

6. Everlasting crown. I Pet. v:4. 

7. What it cost. The crown of thorns. 
Matt. xxvii:2o,; John xix:5. 

V. Satisfying benefit. 
1. Good things, v. 5. 

2 Satisfaction with his salvation. Acts 
iv:i2. 

3. Satisfaction in His saving power. 
Heb. vii:25. 

4. Satisfaction in the knowledge of a 
present salvation. II Tim.; I John iii:i; 
1:9. 

5. Satisfaction in His power to keep to 
the end. John x; Jude 24; II Tim. i:i2. 

6. Satisfaction in His service. Col. iii: 

24- 

7 Satisfaction when He comes. Ps. 
xvii:i ■• ; I John i : 1-3- 

He' satisfieth the longing soul. 

See John iv:i4; Prow xix:23; Joel ii:26 

See Ps. lxviii: 19; ciii : 2 ; cxvi:i2; ciii: 
I, 2, 20, 21, 22. 



THE CRUCIFIXION. 
Luke xxiii:33-46. 
I. Christ put to death. 

1. By wicked men. Acts Mi 152. 

2. For wicked men. Rom. v:6. 

3. With wicked men. v. 33. 

I I . Christ crucified. 

1. For all. I Tim. ii:6. 

2. For us. Titus ii: 14. 

3. For me. Gal. ii:20. 

III. Three if s. 

1. Ruler's, v. 35. 

2. Soldier'?, v. 37. 

3. Criminal's, v. 39, 

IV. Three crosses. Three men. 

1. Sin in Him, not on Him, Penitent 
thief, vs. 40, 43. 

2. Sin on Him, not in Him. Jesus. 
v. 38. 

3. Sin in Plim and on Plim. Other 
thief, v. 39. 

V. Three signs. 

1. The rent veil. Blood. Peace, v. 

45- 

.2. Rocks moved. Creation moved. 
Matt. xxvii:5i. 

3. Graves opened. Resurrection pow- 
er. Matt. xxvii:52. 

VI. Three sayings of the penitent 
Thief. 

1. Self-condemnation, v. 41. 

2. Justifies Christ, v. 41. 

3. Acknowledged Christ as Lord. v.42. 

VII. The Saviour s Answer. 

1. In paradise, v. 43. 

2. With me. See Rev. i ; :7. 

3. To-day. See Rev ii : 7. 



OPEN EYE. 

Eye closed. II Cor. iv:4; Rev. iii: 17. 

Christ's mission to open the eyes of the 
blind. Isa. xxxv:5; xxix:i8; Lukeiv:i8; 
Ps. cxlvi:8. 

Our Prayer. Ps. cxix:lS. 

Adam and Eve. Gen. iii ; 7 . 

Hagar. Gen. xxi:i9. 

P-.'c-am. Num. xxii:3i; xxiv:3 s :<j. 



i68 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Servant of Elisha. II Kings vi:i5, 17. 
Two blind men. Matt. ix:27-30. 
Two blind men. Matt. xx:30-34. 
Bartimeus. Markx:46-52. 
Man born blind. John ix:6, 32. 
Disciples. Luke xxiv:3i; I John 1:1-3. 
Paul. Actsix:i8. 



3. Not conformed to the world. Rom. 
xii:2. 

4. Christian benevolence. Phil. iv:i8. 

5. Manifesting the fruit of the Spirit. 
Eph. v:3, 9, 10. 

6. Obedience to parents. Col. iii:20. 

7. Whole life devoted to Him. II Cor. 



See Acts xxvi:i8; Eph. i:i8: Isa. Hi:|v:g. 

II. He walked with God. Gen. v:22, 



8; xxxiii:i7; I Cor. xiii: 12. 

IT IS WRITTEN. 
Paul. 

1. Paul before Ananias. Acts xxiii:5- 

2. Paul. Re-Israel and the Gentiles. 
Rom. xi:8. 

3. Paul. Re-Christian ministry. I 
Cor. ix:g, *io. ' 

4. Paul. Re-Christ all in all. I Cor. 

i:3L 

5. Paul. Re-Justification by faith. 
Rom. iv:i6, 17, 23 24. 

6. Paul. Re-The hope of the resurrec- 
tion. II Cor. iv:i3. 

7. Paul. Re-Adam natural and spirit- 
ual. I Cor. xv:45. 

8. Paul. Re-Christian forbearance and 
long suffering. Rom. xii:i9. 

9. Paul. Re-The believer's judgment. 
Rom. xiv:ii. 

• o. Paul. Re- Work and the law. 
Gal. iii:io. 

11. Paul. Re-Christian unselfishness. 
Rom. xv:3. 

12. Paul. Re-Why written. Rom. 
xv 14. I Cor. x:ii. 



LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF 
ENOCH. 

Gen. v:2i-24. 
Read Heb. xii 

I. He pleased God. Heb. xi:5, 6. 
See John viir.29; Rom. viii:7, 8. John 
Iii.5-7. 

Things well pleasing to God. 

1. Presenting ourselves. Rom. xii: I. 

2. Doing good to others. Heb. xiii: 
16. 



24. 

1. Walked. Progress. 

2. Walked with. Companionship. 

3. Walked with God. Privilege. 

The highway of holiness. The first 
step down and out of self. The humble 
shall be exalted. 

See Amos iii : 3 ; II Cor. vi::4; Ps. i:i; 
Eph. li: 1 -3 ; Rev iii .4. 

III. He witnessed for God. Jude 
14, 15- 

No man can give faithful testimony who 
is not pleasing Go 1 and walking with 
God. 

See Prov. iv:5; Luke xxiv.48; Acts 
i:8. 

Enoch's end. Heb. xi:5. 

Please God. Cannot please world. 

Walk with God. Cannot walk with 
world. 

Testify for God. Cannot testify for the 
world. See Col. i: i'\ 



CHRIST'S INTERCESSORY 
PRAYER. 
John xvii. 

The finished work. v. 4. See Eph. 
11:10. 

1. v. 6. Given to Christ out of the 
world. See Col. i.13; Eph. ii: 1 3 ; Ps. 
xki-4. 

2. v. 11. Left in the world. See Matt. 

v:i3. 14- 

3. v. 14. Not of the world. See 
Eph. ii:6; I John iv:i7; II Cor. iii : 1-3. 

4. v. 14. Hated by the world. See 
II Tim. iii:i2; T Pet. ii:2i; John XYL33; 
Heb. xiii:s, 6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



169 



5. v. 15. Kept from the evil of the 
world. See II Tim. 1:12; iv:l8; Jude 24; 
Gal. i:4. 

6. v. 18. Sent into the world. See 
Phil. ii:i5, 16. 

7. v. 20. Preaching the Word to the 
world. See Mark xvi:i5; I Thess. ii:4. 

Paul. See Gal. ii:2o; vi:4. Phil. i:20, 
21 ; Acts xxvi:22. v 

See also Prov. xiv:25; Acts i:S. 

THE " IF " OF UNBELIEF. 

1. If thou wilt? Question of His 
willingness. Mark i:4C. See Matt, xi: 
28; John vi:37; Luke v:i2, 13; Matt. 
xxiii:37; II Pet. iii:g; Ex. vi:6-8; Isa. xli: 
10, 13, 14; Mai. iii:io; John xiv:i3, 14; 
xvi:23. 

2. // thou canst. Question of power. 
Mark ix: 22. See John i:i-3; Matt, ix: 18; 
Luke vii:i4, 15; John xi:43, 441 Matt, 
xxviii: iS: Gen. xviii:i4. 

He is able to save to the uttermost. 
Heb. vii:25. 

He is able to keep that committed unto 
Him. II Tim. i:i2. 

He is able to keep you from falling. 
Jude 24. 

He is able to make you stand. Rom. 
xiv:4. 

He is able to present you faultless be- 
fore the presence of His glory. Jude 24. 

Pie is able to succor them that are 
tempted. Heb. ii:l8. 

He is able to do exceeding abundantly 
above all you can ask or think. Eph. iii: 
20. 

Doubt no more. See Matt. ix:28, 29; 
Mark ix:22. 

3. If it be Thou. Question of His 
presence. Matt xiv:28. See Matt, xxviii: 
20; Heb. xiii: 5 ; Isa. xliii:2; Dan. iii 25; 
Rom. viii 131 . 

What His presence means to us. 

1. Rest. Ex. xxiv:i4. 

2. Assurance of being kept. Gen. 



3. 

20. 

4- 

ix:3; 

5; 

need 

6. 

xxxi: 

7- 
8. 

9- 

10. 
xvi: 



All power. Matt, xxviii: 18-20; xviii: 

Power over enemies. Josh. i:5; Ps. 

Rom. viii 13 1 . 

Strength and comfort in time of 
. Acts xxiii:u; II Tim. iv:i7. 

Courage. Acts xviii :q, 10; Deut. 
6, 8. 

Safety. Dan. iii.25; Isa. xliii:2. 

No fear. Ps. xlvhi-7. 

No fear in death. Ps. xxiii 4. 

Joy and pleasure evermore. Ps. 
11. See John xi:2i-32; Deut. 1:42. 



"TEACH ME." 

1 . Teach me the way of salvation. See 
Ps. xxv:5; Matt. xi:28. 30; John xiv:26; 
John v:24; Actsxvi:3i. 

2. Teach me Thy way. Ps. xxviini; 
John xiv:6; Prov. xvi:25; iii:6; Ps. xxxii: 
S. 

3. Teach me Thy path. Ps. xxv:4; 
Prov. iii: 1 3-1 7; iv:i8; Titus ii: 1 1-13. 

4. Teach me Thy statutes. Ps. cxix:i2; 
xix:7, 11; cxix:26, 27, 130; John viii :32; 
John vii:i7; Jas. i:2i; Acts xvii:ii: I 
John v:i3. 

5. Teach me to pray. Luke xi:i; 
Mark i:35; Matt. vi:5"i5; Luke vi:i2; 
Actsxvi:25; Gen. xxxii: 24. 26; Acts iv: 

24-31- 

6. Teach me in thy judgment. Ps. cxix: 
108; Prov. iii: 1 1, 12; Ps. xix:g; Heb. 
xii:6-8; Rev. iii: 17-19; Ps. xciv:i2. 

7. Teach me to number my days. Ps. 
xc:i2; Eccl. xii; Job xix:25"27; Deut. 
xxxii: 29; Matt. xxv:i-io; Job viii: 9-15; I 
Cor.xv:55-5S: John ix:4; II Tim. iv:7, 8. 

" GOD FOR US." 
Rom. viii:3 1 . 

1. Providing salvation for us. Lukei: 
69; ii:2g-3i; Titus ii:ii; Acts iv:i2. See 
Heb. ii:3. 

2. Delivered up His Son for us. Rom. 
viii: 32. 

3. He suffered for us. I Pet. ii:2i; iv: 



7° 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



i. See I Pet. iii:i8; Heb. ii:io, iS. See 
Acts v:4i; Phil. iii:io. 

4. He was sacrificed for us. I Cor. v: 
7; Phil. ii:8. See Ps. Ii:i7; Rom. xii:i; 
Heb. xiii:i3-i6. 

5. He was made sin for us. II Cor. v: 
21. See Heb. xiii:i'3. 

6. He was made a curse for us. Gal. 
iii : 1 3. See Gal. v:l. 

7. He died for us. Rom. v:8; I Thes. 
v:9, 10. 

8. He gave Himself up for us. Eph. 
v:2; Titus ii:i4. 

9. He laid down His life for us. I 
John iii:i6. See Rom. v:6, 8, 10; I John 
iii: 1 6. 

10. He was raised for us. Rom. iv:25; 
I Pet- i:3; Col. iii: 1-4. 

11. He obtained eternal redemption for 
us. Heb. ix:i2. 

12. He is in the presence of God for 
us. Heb. ix:24; Heb. vi:2o. 

13. He maketh intercession for us. 
Rom. viii:34. See Heb. vii:25. 

14 The Holy Spirit maketh interces- 
sion for us. Rom. viii:26. 

15. The new way dedicated for us. 
Heb. x:20. See Heb. x:i9-25« 

16. He is coming again for us. John 
xiv:3; I Cor. xv.51, 52; I Thess. iv:i5, 
18. 

Ps. cxxvi:3. 



A CITY. 

1. Here we have no continuing city, but 
seek one to come. Heb. xiii:i4. 

2. City of God. Glorious things are 
spoken of thee, O city of God. Ps. 
lxxxvii:3. 

3. City of the Living God. Heb. xii: 
22. 

4. City which hath foundation. Heb. 
xi:io. 

5. City whose builder and maker is God. 
Heb. xi:io. 

6. Holy city. Rev. xxi:2. 

7. Great city. Rev. xxi:ic, etc. 



8. Prepared by God for those who have 
faith in Him. Heb. xi:i6. 

COMMUNICABLE FULNESS OF 
GOD. 

What are our conceptions of God? 

0. T. Under law uncommunicable. 
N. T. Under grace communicable. 
Ex. xv:6-i3; Ps. cxlv:3; Jer. xxxii:i7, 

19. Rom. xi:33-36. 

1. Outpouring of Life. Our first great 
need. Isa. Iiii:i2. Soul. See Gen. ii:7, life. 
No measured sacrifice, Greek word, pour 
out, shed forth, spill, run out. Hebrew 
word, "Arah;" make naked, bare, empty. 
See Matt. ix:i7; Ps. xxii:i4. Type. Lev. 
iv:25, 30, 34; xvii:ii; Ps. lxix:20. 

Unto death. What an awful deluge ? 
Essential, Heb. ix:22. Comfort, 26-27, 
28. See John x:io. 

2. Outpouring of Love is our next 
need. All our service begins and con- 
tinues here. Rom. v:5. See Jude 11. 
Read I Cor. xiii. 

A Niagara of Love. Eph. iii: 17-19. 

Its effects. Rom. v:i~5. Justified, 
peace, access, grace, tribulation, patience, 
hope, rejoicing. See I John iii:i, 2. 

3. Outpouring of Power is our next 
need. 

Promise. Isa. xliv:3; Joel ii:2S; John 

vi:37-39- 

Fulfilment. Acts ii: 1-4; Acts ii: 17, 18, 
33; Titus iii : 5 , 6. Whatever the capacity, 
be filled with the Spirit. 

Power of assurance, comfort, knowl- 
edge, guidance. 

All power. Matt. xxviii:i8, 19. 

See John xvi:i3; I Cor. ii.-g, 10. 

Then consider what the effect would be 
if this threefold fulness of God was real- 
ized by all who are in possession. W^hat 
a grand and glorious union, for mark, it is 
one life, love, power, and then what a 
manifestation of God. John xvii:2i, 22, 

2 3- 

All center in Christ. He is the foun- 
tain of life, love and power. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I 7 I 



(1.) Behold His meditational fulness. 

(2.) Behold His sympathetic fulness. 

(3.) Behold His sovereign fulness. 

Life. John x:io. How? v. n; Isa. 
liii. 

Love. Eph. iii:iS; I John iii:i6. 

Power. Matt. xxviii:i8. 

What abundant fulness. Exhaustless 
ocean. Col. i:iq. All this is communi- 
cable. His life. His love. His power. 
John i: 1 6. 

How to get it ? Thorough emptying. 
Thorough abasement. If the butterfly is 
born, the caterpillar must die. Mai. iii: 
10. 

Responsibility. II Cor. ix:3; I Pet. iv: 
10. 

4. Outpouring of Wrath. Ezek. xxx 
15; Hos. v:io; Rev. xiv:io, 11. 

Oh, what a sweeping flood ! What an 
awful deluge. Wrath of God. Nah. i:2 
Wrath of the Lamb. Rev. vi:i6, 17 
Hell itself a refuge if it hid from the 
wrath of the Lamb. Compare John i:2o,; 
Rev. v:4. 

Should such manifestation of God affect 
us. Ps. lxii:8. 



CHRIST'S WITNESSES. 

Mark ix:33-so. 

I. The pride and selfish ambition nat- 
ural to the human heart, vs. 33, 34. See 
Luke ix:46; Matt, xviii: r . 

One of the commonest sins of human- 
ity. 

It is an old sin. 

It is of all others the next soul-ruining 
sin. 

How thought of by God. Prov. xvi:5; 
viii: 13. 

Compare Mark ix:33, 34; Eccl. iii : 18, 
19; CoJ. i: 1 S, 19. 

II. The necessity of a new life. See 
Matt. xviii:3. 

The natural inbred state of an unregen- 
erate man. John i i i : 3 . 
Except, shall not? 



Have we this new life? 
What is the witnesses? 
What is the testimony? 
Does the life show it? 

III. The nature and manifestation of 
this new life. vs. 35-37. 

New life. Not simply a change of the 
old. 

A new creation. 

A divine life. 

A heavenly life. 

Before, self was his life. 

Now, Christ is his life. 

Conversion from pride to humility. 

Conversion from conceit to self-abase- 
ment. 

Repentance — Abhorrence of self. Ad- 
oration of God. 

Repentance — Abandonment of self. Ab- 
solute trust in God. 

Characteristic of the natural man — 
self. 

Characteristic of the spiritual man — 
Christ. 

Two men. See Gen. xxxix. Joseph. 
Gen. xix:i4. Lot. 

IV. The divine standard of true great- 
ness, vs. 35, 36. 

A little child the standing witness of 
true greatness in the kingdom of heaven. 

CHARACTERISTICS. 

1. Simplicity. 

2. Confidence or trust. 

3. Weakness or inability. 

4. Naturalness. 

5. Freedom from self-ambition. 

6. Truthfulness. 

7. Affection. 

8. Humility. 

See Matt, xx: 26-28. 

examples. 
David. Ps. cxxxhi, 2. 
Paul. Phil. iii:4-7. 
Jesus. Phil, ii: 5-8. 
Humility the root of all the graces. 
See Matt. viii:8, etc.; xv:27, 28. 

V. The Lord's estimate or opinion of 



172 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



his Church in contrast with man's narrow, 
bigoted, sectarianism, vs. 38-42. 

Look at the spirit manifested in the 
words "one," "us." 

See Num. xi:23-37. 

Mark the answer of Moses, v. 29. See 
Rev. xix-.io, 1. c; Acts xxvi:i6-i8; John 
xvii:2i. 

VI. The great question of time and 
eternity, vs. 43-48. 

Pain here, preferable to sin and eternal 
torment beyond. 

Sacrifice anything and everything here, 
rather than sacrifice eternal happiness 
there. 

If we are to cease being stumbling 
blocks to others we must first get rid of 
the stumbling block to our own souls. We 
must begin with self- judgment. Cut it 
off. Pluck it out. 

VII. The reality, aw fulness and eter- 
nity of future punisJi77ient. 

O, unsaved man, ponder here. See 
how the Lord labors to bring before the 
man the full and final result of evil. 
There is a real hell. An eternal hell. 

Bless God there is a way of escape. 

The demand of the day is for true wit- 
nesses. 



CUPS OF SCRIPTURE. 
xxvi:39, 



42. 



I. Empty Cup. Matt 
Compare Matt. xviii:n. 

The Father's gift to His Son. 

The cup of God's wrath against sin. 

What a bitter draught? 

He knew every ingredient of that aw- 
ful mixture, even before He put it to His 
lips. 

Precious truth. It is empty now. 
drained it once for all. 

II. Full Cup. Ps. cxvi:i2, 13. 
Empty cup the cost of this full cup 
Full salvation. What does it 

mean? 
Pardon. 
Redemption. 



He 



not 



Justification. 

Sanctification. • 

Rest. 

Peace. 

Joy. 

Power. 

Eternal life — Heaven. 

What shall we do with it? Take. 

Drink, yea drink abundantly. 

III. The Lord {Jehovah) Cup. Ps. 
xvi: 5 . 

Behold Jesus turn to Jehovah as His 
portion. 

Shall not we as joint heirs take this cup, 
too? 

What untold treasure here ! 

Not His work, His word, His fellow- 
ship, His power, His glory, etc. ; but 
Himself. 

See Lam. iii:24; Ps. lxxiii:26; Eph. iii: 
18, 19. 

IV. Cup of sorrow and suffering. 
Matt. xx:22, 23. 

James a martyr. Acts xii:i, 2. 

John persecuted in tribulation. Rev. 
i:g. 

See I Pet. iv:i3; v:io; Rom. viii:i7; 
John xvi:33; Phil, iii: 10. 

V. Covenanted Ctip. Luke xxii:20. 
Testament. Last will of the deceased. 
vSealed with His blood. 

Are you included, i. e.. mentioned in 
the will? 

VI. Cup of blessing. I Cor. x:i6. 
Union. Communion. Fellowship. 

Blessing. 

The one who drank the cup of suffer- 
ing holds out to all the cup of blessing. 

VII. Cup of separation. I Cor. x:2i. 
We cannot have the cup of blessing and 

the cup of cursing, too. 

Absolute separation. Which? 

VIII. Double Cup. I Cor. xi:25-28; 
Luke xxii:i9; Matt. xxvi:26, 29. 

1. Cup of Remembrance. 

2. Cup of Hope. (1) Remember me. 
Bethlehem. No place to lay His head. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



173 



Gethsemane. Judgment. 

Cross. Crown of thorns. 

Blood. Death. 

(2) Expectancy. Till He come. Hope. 
One eye on the Cross, the other on the 
Crown. 

IX. Overflowing Cap. Cup of life. 
Ps. xxiii:5. John vii:37-39. John x: 10. 

X. Cup of service or good works 
Matt. x:42; Mark ix:4i. 

Human sympathy made up of drops of 
kindness. 

XI. Cup of astonishment. Ezek. xxiii. 
3'-35- 

Matt. vii:2l, 23. What a bitter cup. 

XII. Cup of wrath. Ps, lxxv:S; Ixxiii: 
10; Jer. xxv:i5. 28; Rev. xviiig. Ps. 
xi:6. The portion of this cup forever. 



BEHOLD. 

1. Condemnation. Behold, I was shapen 
in iniquity. Ps. li : 5 . 

Behold I am vile. Job. xl:4. 

.2. Incarnation. Behold, I bring you 
good tidings of great joy. Luke ii:io, 11. 

3. Redemption. Behold the Lamb of 
God which taketh away the sin of the 
world. John i:29; xix:5. 

4. Justification. Behold my hands and 
my feet (/'. <?., living). 

Raised for our justification. Rom. iv: 
25; Ps. xcvii:i; I Pet. L3; Heb. vii:25. 

5. Reconciliation. Behold now is the 
accepted time. II Cor. vi:2. 

Behold now is the day of salvation. II 
Cor. vi-2. 

God is reconciled. II Cor. v:i8. 

All is finished. Heb. ix:25, 26. Heb. 

i:3. 

Holy Spirit striving. John xvi:8. 
All things ready. Matt. xxii:4. 

6. Salvation. Behold I stand at the 
door and knock. Rom. iii:20. 

Waiting to be gracious. Isa. xxx:i8. 
Let the Saviour in. 

7. Trans figuration. Behold I come 
quickly. Rev. xxii:7. 



Behold the Saviour leave the mediato- 
rial throne. 

Day of grace gone. Summoned before 
God. 

See Deut. xi:26; I John iii:i. 



SALVATION. 

Deliverance. Redemption of man from 
the consequences and power and domin- 
ion of sin. 

1. God of salvation. Ps. lxviii::o. 
Divine. 

2. Horn of salvation. II Sam. xxii:3. 
Powerful. 

3. Shield of salvation. II Sam. xxii: 
3. Protecting. 

4. Rock of salvation. II Sam. xxii: 
47. Surety. 

5. Tower of salvation. II Sam. xxii:3. 
Safety. 

6. Gospel of salvation. Eph. 1:13. 
Gladness. 

7. Joy of salvation. Ps. lxx:4. Hap- 
piness. 



1. I have waited for thy salvation. Gen. 
xlix:i8. See Rev. xix:i. 

2. Stand still and see the salvation of 
the Lord. Ex. xiv:i3. 

3. The Lord hath raised up an horn of 
salvation for us. Luke i:6g. 

4. To give the knowledge of salvation 
unto His people. Luke i :77- 

5. Mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, 
Luke ii :3c 

6. All flesh shall see the salvation of 
God. Luke iii:6. 

7. This day is salvation, come to thy 
house. Lukexix:g. 

1. His presence is salvation. Ps. xlii: 
5, marfin. 

2. The grace of God which bringeth 
salvation, hath appeared. Titus ii:ii. 

3. To you is the word of salvation 
sent. Acts xiii:26. 



174 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



4. The Gospel is the power of God 
unto salvation. Rom. i:i6. 

5. Behold now is the day of salvation. 
II Cor. vi:2. 

6. How shall we escape if we neglect 
so great salvation? Heb. 11:3. 

7. He shall appear a second time with- 
out sin unto salvation. Heb. ix:23. 
fPJTr| Common salvation. Jude 3. 

I |- i Great salvation. Heb.ii:3. 

1 11 Li Everlasting salvation. Isa. xlv: 
17; Heb. v:9. 



GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY IN GRACE. 

I. He hath brought salvation. 
Titus ii: 1 1, Isa. Iix:i6; Acts iv:i2. 

II. He hath brought deliverance. 

1. Out of bondage. Ex. vi:5. 

2. Out of darkness. Isa. cvii:i4; I 
Pet. ii:9. 

3. Out of the horrible pit. Ps. xl:i, 4. 

4. From our enemies. Luke 1:74. 

5. From the world. Gal.i'4. 

6. From the flesh. Rom. viii:3. 

7. From the devil. John xii:3i. 

8. From the grave. Ps. xxx:3 — lxxxvi: 
13. margin. 

9. From death. Heb. ii:i4, 15. 

10. From hell. I Thess. i:io; Ps. 
lxxxvi: 13, margin. 

11. From sin. Rom. vi:6. 

12. From all iniquity. Titus ii:i4. 

13. From the law. Gal. iii:i3. Rom. 
vii:6. 

14. From judgment. John v:24. Rom. 
viihi. 

III. He hath brought life. 
II Tim. i:g, 10; John x:io. 

i. Resurrection life. Col. ii:i2, 13; 
Eph. ii:5, 6; Gal. ii:20. 

2. Divine life. I John v:i2; II Pet. 
i: 4 . * 

3. Eternal life. John x:28. 

Life does not only imply deliverance, 
but energy to live. 

IV. He hath brought us righteousness. 



Jer. li:io; Dan. ix:24. Rom. x:4; iv:n; 
viihio; I Cor. i:3o; Isa. lxi:io. Iiv:i7. 

V. He hath brought us into a place of 
safety. 

Luke x: 34; Judges ii:i; Ps. xii:5, mar- 
gin; Prov. i:33 ; Rom. viii:35, 38, 39; 
Col. iii: 3. 

VI. He hath brought us fulness of 
blessing. 

1. Into a large place. II Sam. xxii:20. 

2. Into a wealthy place. Ps. lxvi: 12. 

3. To His banqueting house. Cant. 
ii:4- 

4. Waters to swim in. Ezek. xlvii. — . 

5. Grace. II Cor. ix:8; John i: 16. 

6. No want. Ps. xxiii:i; xxxiv:9. 

7. Every need. Phil, iviig. 

VII. He will bring us unto His glory. 
I Pet. i:i3; I Thess. iv:i3, etc.; Rom. 

viii:i8; Col. iii 14. 

Now behold Him. 1. Brought to hu- 
miliation. Matt. i:25- 

2. Brought to death. Isa. liii.7; Heb. 
ix:i6. 

3. Brought to life. Heb. xiii:20. 



THE CITY OF GOD. 

1. The church. Isa. Ix:i4; Ps. xlviii: 
2, 3; Rev. iii:i2; Heb. xii:22, 23; Eph. ii: 
19. 

2. Built on a firm foundation. Isa. 
xxviii:i6; Matt. xvi:i8; I Pet. ii:6; Eph. 
ii:20. 

3. Well built. Ps. cxxii:2, 3; Heb. 
xi:io. 

4. Built of living stones. I Pet. ii : 5 . 

5. A strong city. Isa. xxvi:i. 

6. A walled city. Isa. Ix:i8; Zech. ii: 

4, 5- 

7. Well fortified. Ps. xlviii: 12, 13. 

8. Way to the city. John xiv:6; Isa. 
xxxv:8, 9. 

9. The gates open. Ps. cxviii:i8, 19; 
John x:9. 

10. God shall dwell in the midst. Zech. 
ii: 5 ; Ezek. xliii:7-9. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



175 



11. No darkness. Isa. Ix:i9, 20; Rev. 
xxi:23. 

Heb. xiii:i4. 



MYSTERY. 

1. Gospel. Eph. vi:ig. 

2. The faith. I Tim. iii:g. 

3. Godliness. I Tim. iii:i6. 

4. Of Christ. Eph. ill : 3, 4, 5. 

5. Fellowship of the mystery. Eph. 
iii:g. 

6. His will. Eph. \:g. 

7. Wisdom of God. I Cor. ii : 7. 

8. Great mystery. Eph. v:32. 

9. A mystery shown. I Cor. xv:5i. 



WHY? 



Acts ix:4; Ezek. xxxiii:ii; Isa. i:5; 
Gen. iv:6; Jer. viii:5; Isa. xl:27; John 
xx:i5; Luke xxii:46; Matt. xx:6. 

First question God asks man. Gen. 
iii :q. 

Last question God asks man. I Pet. 
iv:i7, 18. 

WITH CHRIST. 

Dead with Christ. Gal. ii:20; Col. ii:2o. 

Buried with Christ. Col. ii:i2 R. V.; 
Rom. vi:4, 5- 

Risen with Christ. Col. iii : 1 ; ii:i2 R. 
V. 

Ascended with Christ. Col. iii 13 R 
V.- Eph. ii:5, 6, R. V. 

Live with Christ. II Tim. ii:ii. 

Glorified with Christ. Rom. viii:i7. 

Reign with Christ. II Tim. .ii:i2; 
Rev. iii:2i. 

Always. Ever. Forever with Christ. 
John xiv:3; xvii:24; I Thess. iv:i7. 

All things with Christ. Rom. viii:32. 



OUR FULNESS. 

Fulness of God. Love. Eph. iii: 19. 
Fulness of Christ. Grace. John i: 16. 
Fulness of spirit. Power. Micahiii:8. 



THE NAME. 

1. For salvation. Acts iv:i2. 

2. For prayer. Johnxiv:i4. 

3. For gathering together. Matt, xviii: 

4. For service. Acts iv:i7, 18, 20. 

5. For discipline. I Cor. v:4. 

6. For subjection. Phil, ii: 10. 

7. For suffering. Acts v:4l. 



GOD'S LOOK. 

Searching. I Sam. xvi:7; John ii:25. 
Expectation. Isa. \:2. 
Recalling. Luke xxii:6i. 
Healing and help. Mark vii:34. 
Blessing and Love. Deut. xxvi:i5. 
Strengthening. Judges vi:i4; Isa. 
lxvi:2. 



COMMIT. 

Commit my spirit. Ps. xxxi:5. 
Commit thy way. Ps. xxxvii:5. 
Commit thy works. Prov. xvi:3. 
Commit the keeping of soul. I Pet. 
iv:ig. 

Commit myself . II Tim. i:i2. 



AGAINST ME. 

1. Murmur. Num. xiv:27- B.C. 1490. 

2. Vaunt themselves. Judges vii:2. 
B. C. 1249. 

3. Sinned, lied, etc. Hos. iv:7; vii: 
13, 15. B. C. 780. 

4. Rebelled. Isa. i:2. B. C. 760. 

5. Transgressed. Ezek. ii : 3 ; xx:8, etc. 
B. C. 595- 

6. Stout words. Mai. iii: 13. B. C. 

397. 

7. Turned traitor. John xiii: 18. A. 

D. 33- 

8. Neutral (?) Matt. xii:3o. A.D. 1888. 
What the cause? John xv:25. 

The results! Ezek. xxxix:23; Prov. 
viii:36; Ex. xxxii:33. 

What to do? Lev. xxvi:40, 42. 



176 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



ALL THINGS OF GOD. 

He is the creator, maker, former and 
builder of all things. 

Jer. li: 19; Prov. xxvi:io; Heb. iii 14 ; 
Neh. ix:6; Prov. xvi:4; Acts xiv:i5; 
xvii:24; Isa. xliv:24; lxvi:i, 2; Eph. iii: 
9; Col. i:i6; Rev. iv:ii; I Cor. viii:6; I 
Cor. xi:i2; Johni:3; Rom. xi:36. 

Compare also Isa. xlv.12, 18; xlviil:i3; 
Heb. i:io, 12; Jer. x:io to 12 margin; 
Gen. i:i, 26, 31. 



GOD'S PURPOSE, ETC., IN 
EPHESIANS. 

God's purpose. i:ii, 5. g. 
God's will. i:5, 9; v:i7; vi:6. 
God's power. 1:19; iii : 7 ; vi:io. 
God's grace, ii : 7 , 8. 
God's love, iii: 1 7-19. 
God's work. ii:io; iii:20. 
God's house, ii: 19-22. 



NEGATIVES IN EPHESIANS. 

Walk not with the world. iv:i7. 

Be not partakers with them. v:7. 

Walk not as fools. v:i5. 

Be not unwise. v:i7. 

Grieve not the Holy Spirit. iv:30. 



HEAVENLY PLACES IN EPHE- 
SIANS. 

1. Blessing. i:3. 

2. Power. i:20. 

3. Peace. ii:6. 

4. Wisdom, iii: 10, 



TOGETHERS IN EPHESIANS. 

1. Quickened, ii: 5. 

2. Raised. ii:6. 

3. Seated. ii:6. 

4. Builded. ii:22. 

5. Joined. iv:i6. 



EXCEEDINGS IN EPHESIANS. 

1. Power. i:g. 

2. Grace, ii : 7. 

3. Ability. iii:20. 



MORE KNOWLEDGE. 

The need. Hos. iv.1-6: Isa. v:i3; Jer. 
iv:22. 

Fools hate knowledge. Prov. i:22. 

Fear of Lord beginning of knowledge. 
Prov. i:7» 

Knowledge of Holy One. Understand- 
ing. Prov. ix:9, 10. 

Eternal life. Knowledge. Johnxvii:3. 

Heart knowledge. Jer. xxiv:7. 

All loss for knowledge of Christ Jesus. 
Phil. iii:8. 

Study of word. II Pet. iii: 18; I Pet. 
ii 2. 

Dependence on Holy Spirit. I Cor. 
ii:i4-i6; John xiv:26; I John ii:20. 

Prayer. James i:5-7; Prov. ii:3-5; * u: 
5,6. 

Obedience and will. John vii:i7; I 
John ii : 3 , 4. 

Holy living. Prov. ix:i8. 

Heb. viii:ii; Hab. ii: 14; I Cor. xiii:i2. 



AMS OF JESUS IN GOSPEL 


OF 






JOHN. 




1. 


I am 


. viii:58. 






2. 


I am 


the light. 


etc. viii:i2. 




3- 


I am 


the bread, 


etc.; vi:35. 




4- 


I am 


the door. 


x:7. 9. 




5- 


I am 


the way. 


xiv.6. 




6. 


I am 


the truth. 


xiv:6. 




7- 


I am 


the life. 


xiv:6. 




8. 


I am 


the resurrection. xi:25. 




9- 


I am 


the Good 


Shepherd. x:ii, 


14. 


10. 


I am 


the true vine. xv:i. 





OUR FATHER. 
I John iii: 1. 

1. The Father's love. John xvi:27: 
xiv:2;-23. 

2. The Father's sympathy. Ps. ciii: 
13; Isa. Ixvi:i3. 

3. The Father's knowledge. Matt, vi: 
32. 

4. The Father's guidance. Jer. iii:4. 

5. The Father's gifts. John iii: 16; 
Rom. viii:32. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



177 



6. The Father's chastening. Heb. 
xii:7. Deut. viii:5; Prov. iii:i2. 

7. The Father's promise for eternity. 
Luke xii:32; Jas. ii : 5 ; Matt. xxv:34; II 
Pet. i:io, 11; II Cor. v:i4 to 2 1 ; II Cor. 
vii:l. 

WHAT GOD HATH PREPARED. 

I Cor. ii: — . 

I. Salvation. Luke ii:29. The want 
of every soul. God in bodily presence. 
God man. Heb. x:5. 

Salvation prepared, brought down to 
man. Titus ii:ii. 

A feast. Matt. xxii:2-5. 

Tell them which are bidden. Who- 
soever will may come — prepared, all 
ready. Luke xiv:i7. 

II. Providence. 

1. Pleavens. Prov. viii:27. 

2. The dry land. Ps. xcv:5. 

3. Light and sun. Ps. lxxiv:i6;Ps. xix. 

4. Rain. Ps. cxlvii:8; Job* xxxvi:26- 
28; Matt. v:45. 

5. Corn for food. Ps. lxv:g; lxviiiig, 
10. 

6. Mercies. Ps. xxiii. Table. 

7. Jonah 1:17; iv:6. Fish. Gourd. 

8. Jonah iv:7-8. Worm. East wind. 

III. Work. Duties. Service. Eph. 
ii:io. All cutout for us, not to scramble 
through, but to walk in. Quiet, steady, 
persevering work, instead of cutting and 
carving out work for ourselves. Lord, 
what wilt thou have me to do? II Cor. 
ix:8. See II Tim. ii:2i. 

(a) The heart. Ezra vii:io; Ps. lvii 17, 
margin; Prov. xvi:i, margin; I Chron. 
xxix:i8, 19; Ps. x:i7; II Chron. xxix:36. 

(b) The vessel. Rom. ix:23, 24; II 
Tim. iii:i6, 17; II Chron. xxxv:io. 

IV. In glory. Rom. ix:23, 24. 

1. A kingdom. Matt. xxv:34; xx:2i, 
23. 

2. A city. Heb. xi:i6. 

City prepared by God. Rev. xxi:io, to 
xxii:5. 

12 



Acts xvii:3i. 
Acts xvii:3i. 
II Tim. ivri; 
Prov. xix: 29. 



3. A house. John xiv; c. f. Matt. 
viii: 9, 20 

I will come again. I John iii:i, 2; I 
Thess. iv:i 3-1 S; Phil, iii :q, 10. 20, 21. 

In. Know. Like. Him. I Cor.ii:g, 
10. 
V. In judgment. Another side. 
Ps. ix:7. Throne for judgment. See 
Ps. ciii : 19. 

Judge appointed. 
Day fixed. 
Rev. xx: 12-14. 
Who are they that scorn? 
They that make light of the great salva- 
tion which God hath prepared. 

See also Ps. vii:i2, 13; Matt xxv:4i. 
Prepare to meet thy God! Amos iv:i2. 

SEVEN IMPOSSIBLE THINGS. 

I. Impossible for God to lie. Heb. 
vri8; Rev. xix:g; Ps. cxix:i6o; John 
xvii:i7; Ps. xl:8; cxixSg; I Pet. i:23, 24, 
25; Matt, xxiv.35; Ezek. xxiv:i4; Ps. 
lxxxix:34, 35'. Titus i:i, 2; Num. xxiii: 
19. 

We trust not only in what God can do, 
but what God cannot do. Our hopes rest 
not only on His ability, but on His ina- 
bility. Heb. vi: 13-20. 

"Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand 
When rolling- years shall cease to move.'" 

II. Impossible for man to enter heaven 
unless born again. John iil : 5 , 6, 7; 
Matt. xviii:3; Rom. viii 17, 8. 

IIL Impossible for man to be saved 
without the shedding of blood. Heb. ix: 
22. 

Sin must be atoned for, or the sinner 
cannot be saved. John iii:i4. 

Sin must be condemned (judged) or the 
sinner must be condemned. Matt, xxvi: 

39- 

Sin must be "put away," or the sinner 
must be put away. Heb. ix:26. 

Behold the justice of God. He would 
cease to be God, were He to fail here 



i 7 8 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Behold the love of God. Yea, He 
would cease to be God, were He to fail 
here. 

"Here the whole Deity is known 
Nor dare a creature guess, 
Which of the glories brighter shone, 
The justice or the grace." 

IV. Impossible to be saved without 
personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 
Johniii:i8; iii 136 ; Markxvi:i6; Heb.xi:6. 

V. Impossible for man to believe on the 
Lord Jesus Christ and not be saved. Mark 
xvi:i6; Acts xvi:3i; Rom. x:o,; Eph. ii:8; 
Rom. v:i. 

Thy faith hath saved thee. Luke vii: 

50. 

VI. Impossible to be saved after this 
life. Luke xvi:26. 

We pass out of this life like arrows or 
rockets, pointing in one of two directions 
— strike the judgment throne and fly off, 
either to the right or to the left. 

Fixed! Fixed! ! Fixed! ! ! Eternally 
fiaed! 

VII. Impossible for those who despise, 
reiect 07 neglect Christ to escape the penalty 
of their sin. Ezek. xiii:4; Ps. ix:i7; 
Rev. vi:i4-i9: II Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. xxi: 
8 4 Heb. ii:3. Impossible! Impossible! 



THE "I AMS" OF ST. PAUL. 

Being the experience of a man of like 
passions as ourselves. 

[. I am dead. Gal ii:i9, 20; c. f. 
Rom. vi:3, 4, 5, 6, 7-18. 

!J. I am alive. Rom. x'v.li. 

Dead to the service of the world, the 
flesh and the devil. Alive unto the serv 
ice of Christ. 

3. Whose I am. Whom I serve. Acts 
xxvii:23. 

So as much as in me is, 

4. I am ready to preach the gospel. 
Rom. 1:15. 

For 

5. I am not ashamed of the gospel of 
Christ. Rom i:i6. 



Whereunto 

6. I am appointed a preacher. II Tim. 
i:ii. 

For which cause I also suffer. 
Nevertheless 

7. I am not ashamed, for I know whom 
I have believed. 

and 

8. I am persuaded that He is able to 
keep, etc. II Tim. i : 1 2 . 

9. I am ?nade all things to all ?nen that 
I might by all means save some. I Cor. 
ix:22. 

For I speak to you, Gentiles, inasmuch as 

10. I am the Apostle to the Gentiles, 
Rom. xi:i3. 

Although 

11. I am the least of the Apostles. 
I Cor. xv :g. 

12. I am less than the least of the 
saints. Eph. iii: 8. Yea 

13. I am the chief of sinners. I Tim. 

i:i5- 

But when 

14. I am weak, then 

15. I am strong. II Cor. xii:io. 
For it is by the grace of God 

16. I am what I am. I Cor. xv: 10. 

And 

17. I am persuaded that neither death, 
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, 
nor powers, nor things present, nor 
things to come, nor height, nor depth, 
nor any other creature, shall be able to 
separate us from the love of God, which 
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. viii: 
38, 39. Also, I take you to record this 
day that, 

18. I am pure from the blood of all men. 
For I have not shunned to declare unto 
you all the counsel of God. Acts xx: 
26, 27. 

Therefore 

19. I am now ready to be offered, and 
the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished 
my course, 1 have kept the faith; hence- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



179 



forth there is laid up for me a crown of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the right- 
eous judge, shall give me at that day. II 
Tim. iv:6-S. 



THE NECESSITY OF THE 
ASCENSION. 

"It is expedient for you that I go 
away." 

1. In relation to the coming of the Holy 
Spirit. Isa. xxxii:i5; xliv:3; Joel ii:28, 
29; John vii:'37-39; John xiv:i6, 26; xv: 
26; Acts i:4, 5, 8; John xvi:7; Acts ii:33- 

2. In relation to righteousness. Isa. 
xlv:23; Mark xvi:i6 with Rom. i:i6, 17; 
Phil. ii:9, 11 with Jer. xxiii:6; John xvi:io. 

3. In relation to the atonement. Ex. 
xxx:6-io; Lev. xvi:i8; Heb. ii:g; ix:i-i2. 

4. In relation to spiritual life and its 
assurance. Acts v:3l. 

"At God's right hand, etc." 

(Margin R. V.) "God uplifted a 
princely leader and Saviour to His right 
hand," etc. — Rotherham. 

(a) Life. John xx:3i; xvi:8,g; iir: 5 , 8; 
vi:63; II Cor. iii:6; Titus li : 5 , 6. 

(b) Assurance. Col. lii :3 ; Heb. vii:25; 
Rom. viii:34; Heb. ix:24; vi:i7-2o; x:i4, 

15. 

5. In relation to access to the Father. 
John xiv:6; I John ii:i; Heb. viii:i, 4; 
iv:i4-i6; x:ig-22; I Tim. ii: 5 ; Rom. viii: 
29; Eph. ii:i8. 

6. In relation to gifts for service. Ps. 
Ixviii:i8; Eph. iv:7, 8-13; John xiv:26; 
xvi:i3; Actsi:8; ii:4; I Cor. xii:i-u. 

7. In relation to the future abode of all 
believers. John xiv:2, 3; John xvii:24; 
Rev. iii:2i; Ps. 1:3-5; I Thess. iv:i4-i8. 

THE EVERLASTING GOD. 

1. God the Father, everlasting. Ps. 
xc:2; Isa. xl:28. 

2. God the Son, everlasting. Isa. ix: 
•6; Prov. viii:23; Rev. 1:8. 

3. God the Holy Spirit, everlasting. 
Heb. ix:i4. 



This God is our God forever and ever. 
Ps. xlviii:i4. 



BETTER. 

Better Saviour. Heb. i:4. 

Better hope. Heb. vii:i9. 

Better covenant. Heb. vii:22; viii:6, 

Better possession. Heb. x:34. 

Better country. Heb. xi:i6. 

Better blood. Heb. xii:24 

Better resurrection. Heb. xi:35. 

Heb. xiii:8; xii:i, 2. 



THE GOODNESS OF GOD. 

Read Ex. xxxiii:i3-i9. 

1. Abundant. Ps. xxxi:i9; xxxiii:5; 
Ex. xxxiv:6. 

2. Enduring. Ps. lii:i; c:5. 

3. Providing. Ps. lxv:ii. 

4. Filling. Ps. cviiig. 

5. Satisfying. Jer. xxxi:i4. 

6. Going before. Ps. xxi:3- 

7. Following after. Ps. xxiii:6. 

LESSONS. 

1. Repentance. Rom. ii 14. 

2. Faith. Ps. xxvii:i3; xxxvi:7; Eph. 

ii:8. 

3. Ps. cvii:8. 

4. Prayer. Ps. xxxvi:io. 



WILDERNESS EXPERIENCES. 

Ex. xv. 

I. Redemption Song. vs. 1, 22. 
All singing in the Scriptures connected 
with redemption. 

(a) " Then." What a significant word! 
Redeemed! What a great deliverance! 
(See past experience.) What of us ? 
Eph. i:7; Col. i: 13; Gal. i:4; I Thess. i: 
10. Is it so? Then sing — "Sing unto 
the Lord." 

(b) The theme. Grace. Jehovah the 
God of all grace acknowledged as having 
done all. 

(c) Adoration and worship, manifest in 
every note. 



i8o 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



(d) How Comprehensive. The Lord 
has become my salvation. The Lord is 
my strength. The Lord is my song. 
The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is 
glorious in power. The Lord is glorious 
in holiness. The Lord doeth wonders. 
The Lord is a God of mercy. The Lord 
is our guide. The Lord shall reign for- 
ever and ever. Past, present, future re- 
demption, grace and glory. 

(e) How personal, vs. I, 2. 

II. Relationship. 

(a) We the habitation of God. v. 2. 
See Isa. lvii.15; Ps. cxxxv:3"5; Eph. ii: 
19-22 (the church); II Cor. VKI4-18; I 
Cor. vi:i9; Eph. iii : 1 7 ; I John iv:i2 (the 
Believer). 

(b) God our habitation, v. 13. See I 
Pet. iii: 13; Eph. 11:4, 6; John xv:5; I 
John iv:i6; John xvii 124; I Thess. iv:i7. 
Marvelous relationship! Blessed union! 
Glorious hope! 

III. No water, v. 22. 

Type of the uncertainty of things here. 
The unsatisfying portion of things earthly. 
See Ps. lxv:i. Contrast Isa. lv:i, 2; 
John iv:i4; vii:38. 

IV. Marah. v. 23. 

How soon all is changed ! Strains of 
songs still in the air, and now full of bit- 
ter complaint and murmuring. What a 
picture of the Christian conflict ! Flesh 
and Spirit. Spirit and flesh. Spirit 
ceases to sing; flesh begins to murmur. 

V. Prayer, v. 25. 

This is our only safeguard. Absolute, 
uninterrupted dependence. Water not 
taken away but sweetened. See Phil, iii: 
10; II Cor. xii:g; Phil. iv:6, 7; Johnxiv: 
13, 14. '"Ask and ye shall receive." 

VI. Elim. v. 27. 

Rest, shelter, refreshment. How near! 
Only two hours' walk — for sight of Marah. 
Wonderfully true in the experience of 
many believers. See Hagar and Ishmael, 
how soon her bitter Marah becomes Elim, 
when the Lord opens her^eyes, or the 



disciples in the storm-tossed vessel; how 
quickly the Lord's ''Peace be still !" made 
their Marah, Elim, or the disciples on the 
way to Emmaus, the presence of the Lord 
changes the bitter Marah to sweet, re- 
freshing Elim. 

Lesson — Live in constant fellowship 
with Jesus, our Elim. Jesus is the great 
antidote for all our bitter Marahs. 

VII. Responsibility . V. 26. 

Privilege and responsibility inseparable- 
Rom. xii:i, 2; Heb. xii:i, 2; Col. iii: 1-5;. 
I John iii: 1-3. 

A— THE WILL OF GOD. 

1. The need of such a prayer as Paul's, 
in Eph. v:i7. 

2. The character of the Lord's will. 
I. The need of such a prayer. 

We pray —Thy will be done as in 
heaven, so on earth. 

In heaven His will is done, cheerfully, 
constantly, perfectly, only one will there. 

Eph. v.i 7. "Wherefore, be not fool- 
ish (senseless) but understand what the 
will of the Lord is." How little we un- 
derstand (know) His will. We need to> 
study, consider, acquaint ourselves with 
the will of God — but first see the need of 
this prayer of Paul's. Prov. xii:i5; xxvi: 
12; Isa. v:2i. 

We have turned every one to his own 
way, from Adam down to the present, one 
continuous stream of self-will, and self- 
will is sin, and sin is self-will. From the 
beginning self-will has been the ruin of 
man, and it is to be a special manifesta- 
tion of these last days, "lovers of their 
own selves, boasters, proud, disobedient 
to parents, heady, high-minded." II Tim. 
iii: 1-7. Not till He comes again, who. 
delights to do His Father's will, shall this, 
abominable self-will be put to an end- 
Then and not till then will the prayer be 
fully answered. "Thy will be done as in 
heaven, so on earth." Let the prayer of 
the Psalmist be our prayer, and that con- 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



181 



tinually: "Teach me to do Thy will." 
Ps. cxliii:io. 

II. The character of the Lord's will. 

Like Himself. Rom. xii:2. Good, 
acceptable, perfect. See also Micah vi:S; 
Jer. ix:23, 24; Rom. viii:2S, and Matt, v: 
48; Lukevi:4o; Eph. iv:io-i3; John xvii: 
23; Heb. xiii:2i; Col. iv:i2. 



B— THE WILL OF GOD. 

I. Not ivilling that any should perish. 
II Pet. iii:g; Ezek. xxxiiku 

Then why is it men perish ? Self will. 
John v:40. 

"The preaching of the cross is to them 
that perish, foolishness." See II Pet. ii: 
•9-12. Matt. xviii:i-i4. 

II. His 7cill is that all men should be 
saved. I Tim. ii:i-6. 

He desires the salvation of all men, but 
■only effectually wills the salvation of those 
■who believe. I Tim. iv:io. 

Your salvation is sure if you will it, for 
God wills it if you do. John vi:37"40. 

Verses 37, 38, 39. Divine side. God's 
will. 

Verses 37, 40. Human side. Man's 
will. 

Two ends of this golden chain, elec- 
tion and glory, eternity past, eternity 
future, are hidden from us here in detail, 
but there is a glorious revelation. No one 
can say he is excluded. No one can say 
the "terms are too hard." Everyone, 
none cast out, all that come, and eternal 
security of all who do come 

Now compare Matt. vii:2i-23, with 
Matt. xii:5o; I John ii : 1 7 . 

Now see John v:40— again. " How 
often would I have gathered thee — but ve 
■would not.'''' 



C THE WILL OF GOD. 

His will has something more in it — for 
11s — than salvation from death, or even 
salvation to life 



I. His will of Sovereign Relationship. 
Gal. iv:4, 5. 

What has this to do with His will? 
God sent forth His Son. What for? 
What has the Son to say about it ? Ps. 
xl:7, 8. Luke xxii:42. 

John i:i2, 13. Sons of God — of the 
will of God. 

J as. i.18. His own will. 

Eph. i:5, 6. According to the good 
pleasure of His will. , 

Marvelous words of grace. 

Is this the end of His will ? No ! Look 
at Rom. viii: 1 6, 17. 

II. His will of Sovereign Heirship. 
Luke xii:32. Mark the connection here. 

(a) The kingdom prepared from the 
foundation of the world. Matt. xxv:34. 

(b) The kingdom which cannot be re- 
moved. Heb. xii:2S 

(c) The kingdom which is everlasting. 
II Pet. i:ii. 

Fear not. For whom ? Jas. ii - 5 . Poor. 
See Matt. v:3. Little flock. Diminutive, 
but precious. 

Fear not. At what price? A gift, all 
of grace. II Cor. viii 19. 

Read Luke xii :27.4c. 

Still more ! 

III. His will of sovereign compan- 
ionship. 

John xiv:3. "Where I am," "Ye may 
be also." 

John xvii:24. "With me — where I am." 
Father, I will! His will and the Father's 
will one. Eph. 1:9-14. Mystery of mys- 
teries ! 

With me. Luke xxiii:46; Phil. i:23; 
I Thess. iv:i7. 

" Behold my glory;" this does not 
mean that we shall be simply spectators. 
See I John iii : 2 ; Col. iii:4'. Only a little 
while. Heb. x:36, 37; Rev. iii:20-22 



GROUNDS FOR TRUSTING GOD. 
1. The Word of God. The revelation 



182 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



of His most blessed will and purpose. 
I Pet. K23-25; Ps. cxix:42. 

2. The promises of God. II Pet. 1:4; 
Rom. iv:2i; Heb. x:23. 

3. The filial relation we sustain to God. 
Gal. iii:26; iv:-5; Rom. viii:i4, 16; Pleb. 
viii:io; Matt. vii:ii; John xx:i7. 

4. God's providential care. Ps. xci:o,, 
11; Isa. xrvii:3; Matt. x-2g-3i; Matt, vi: 
32; Rom. viii:28; I Pet. v:7. 

5. Past experience. Ps. ix:io; xxxvii: 
25; lxiii:7; cxviii:5, 21; II Cor. i:io; Gen. 
xlviii:i5, 16; Josh. xxi:45; xxiii:i4; I 
Sam. vii:i2. 



READY. 

1. Sinner ready to perish. Deut. xxvi:5. 
What have you got to do to perish? 

Nothing. 

Condemned already. John iii:i8. 

By the blast of God they perish. Job 
iv:g. 

Neglect. Heb. ii:3. 

2. God ready to save. Isa. xxxviii:2o. 
Salvation ready. Luke ii:30, 31. All 

things ready. Matt. xxii:4; Lukexiv:i7. 

The Lord is not willing that any should 
perish. Ezek. xxxiii:ii. 

Now is the accepted time. II Cor. vi:2 

3. God ready to pardon. Neh. ix:i7. 
Isa. lv:7; Isa. xxx:i8. Why will ye 

die ? God your Maker asks you why ? 

4. Son of Man ready to judge. I Pet 
iv:5- 

Acts xvii:30, 31. God now command 
eth men everywhere to repent. 

Are you ready ? Ready for what ? 

Ready to meet God. Ready for judg- 
ment. Matt, xxiv.42-44; Matt. xxv:io 
They that were ready went in with Him 
The door was shut. 

PARDON, PEACE, PURITY, 
POWER, PARADISE. 

1. Pardon. Micah vii:i8, '9. 

(a) Our need of pardon because con 



demned bylaw. Rom. iii:ig; Jas. ii:io; 
Gal. iii: 10. 

(b) Because of failure as sons. Mai. i: 
6; Luke xv:i2, 29. 

(c) Because of rebellion against God as 
our King. I Thess. ii:i2; Matt. vi:io, 

33- 

(d) Because of treatment of God our 
Redeemer. Hos. vii:i3; Isa. xliii:24-26; 
John v:4p. 

The ground of pardon. Rom. iii: 24, 
25; Lev. vi:22-26; Lev. xvi:2i; Rom. iv: 
25; Gal. iii : 13; II Cor. v.18-21. 

How pardon is received. Isa. lv:7; 
Rom. x:S-i4, 17; Luke xviii:9~i4. 

2. Peace. 

(a) The false peace of ignorance. Ps. 
lxxiii:3-6. Its end, 17-20; Luke xii:i6- 
19. Its end, 20, 21. 

(b) The false peace of self righteous- 
ness. Luke xviii:ii, 12. Its end, Matt. 
xxiii:27, 28. 

(c) The false peace of seared con- 
science. I Tim. iv:i, 2. Its end, II Pet. 
ii:20, 22. 

True peace. Eph. ii:i4; John xxiig, 
21; Lev. iii: 1-5 ; vii:3i"33; ix:2i-24: 
Num. vi:23-27; Lukexxiv:so; Col. i: 20- 
22, 12-14; Rom. v:i. 

To be kept in peace. I John i:g; Phil. 
iii: 3 ; iv:6, 7; Isa. xxvi:3, 4. 

3. Purity. Matt. v:8; Acts xv:g; I 
John i:8-io, and chap. ii:i, and chap, iii: 
1-3,6; Ps. li: 10: II Cor. vii:i. 

A pure heart is a heart where Christ 
dwells and reigns, Rev. iii:2o; Eph. iii: 
17; Gal. ii:20; v:i6, 17, 25: Rom. vii:4; 
viii:9, an d x:6; Col. iii:i~5, 17, 23; Rom. 
xiii:i4. 

4. Power. 

(a) To become a child of God. John i: 
12. 

(b) To live as a child of God. II Cor. 
xii;9, 10; John xv: = : Phil..iv:i3; I John 
v:4. '; Luke xxii:3i, 3:; Rev. xii:ii. 

(c) To win souls for Christ. Acts i: 8; 
Acts v:32; Rom. xv:ig. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



183 



5. Paradise. Luke xxiii.43. 
Where, how, and when. 

(a) Where. II Cor. xiin-4; Rev. 11:7, 
with Gen. ii:S, g. 

Paradise once for a brief moment, an 
earthly scene lost by sin. Man vainly 
seeks to restore it. Eccl. ii:io, n 

Now located above. Ileb. xi: 13-15; 
Acts XXVK7-9; Phil. iii:20, 21; Col. iii:i; 
4; John xiv:i~3. 

(b) How may we gain Paradise ? "With 
me." Luke xxiii:43; Rom. viii: 1 7 ; Heb. 
ix:is; Eph. i:7; Eph. ii:4-8; Rom. vii:4. 

(c) When ? "To-day." Luke xxiii:43. 
II Cor. vi::; John iii : 3G ; v:24. 

So names written in heaven when we 
believe. Second. At death our souls are 
in Paradise. Luke xxiii:46; Acts vii:59 
Phil. i:23; II Cor. v:i-8. Third. When 
Christ comes to set up His kingdom, 
Paradise will be restored to the earth, and 
we shall be with Him then. This the 
fruition, and the full fulfilment. Rom- 
viii : 1 1 , 1S-23; Rev. xxi:i-4. 

Major D. W. Whittle. 



ALL. 



Rom. iii:23; Isa. liii:6; Rom. viii:32; 
Matt. vi:33; Rom. viii:28; Rev. xxi:7. 



THE " ONE THINGS " OF THE 
BIBLE. 



1. The world's-Confusion. Acts xix: 



32. 



xx 111 

9- 
iii:8. 



Befalleth all-Death. Eccl. iii:ig. 
Needful-Conversion. Luke x:42. 
Lacking-Decision. Mark x:2i. 
Known-Assurance. John ix:25. 
To do-Progress. Phil, iii 113. 
Desired-Communion. Ps. xxvii:4. 
Never fails-Lord's Promise. Josh. 
14. 
Forgotten-Lord's Coming. II Pet. 



WITNESS TO THE SUFFERINGS 
OF CHRIST. 

" A witness to the sufferings of Christ." 
I Peter v:i. 

A witness may be (a) an eye witness, or 
(b) one who bears testimony. .In both 
these senses Peter was a witness to the 
sufferings of Christ. He beheld the cru- 
elty to which his Master was subjected, 
and bore him company in the seasons of 
watching and weeping through which He 
passed. But then there was much in re- 
lation to the sufferings of Christ of which 
no man could speak from personal observ- 
ation. There was, for instance, the ob- 
ject of those sufferings and the blending 
of a Divine and human nature by which 
I they were made passible, and by which 
they were made effective. If Peter knew 
anything of these solemn truths, it was 
not flesh and blood that had revealed 
them unto him; the revelation must have 
come to him from God. He therefore 
speaks of events which came under his 
own notice, and declares truths which 
were revealed to him by the Holy Ghost. 
He is a witness to the sufferings of Christ 
as 

1. The Subject of Prophecy. 

See I Pet. i:ii. "Testified before- 
hand." 

Revelation xix: 10. "The Spirit of 
prophecy." [ness." 

Acts x:43, "All the Prophets wit- 
Prophets who witness to the sufferings 
of Christ. 

Isaiah. Compare Isa. liii : 7 ; with Acts 
viii:34. 

David. Compare Ps. 22:1 ; with Matt. 
xxvii:46. 

Zechariah. Zech. xiii 17. 

2. Vicarious. 

I Pet. ii:2i. "For us." 

I Pet. iii:i8. " Fot sins." "Forihe 
unjust." Here it is clearly taught that 
Jesus suffered for others, and for the sins 
of others. 



1 84 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Peter is supported by the testimony 
of 

The Prophets. Isa. liii : 5 ; "For our 
transgressions." 

The Apostles. John. I Jno. ii:2; "For 
our sins." 

The Apostles. Paul. Rom. v:8; " F01 
us." 

Our Lord. Matt. xx:28. "For many.'" 

Our Lord. John vi : 5 1 . For the life of 
the world." 

Our Lord. John x:ii. "For his sheep 

"He has suffered for us" — "for sins." 
Henry Thorne. 



SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THE 
GLORY OF CHRIST. 

1. Pre-existent. John xvii:5. 

2. Revelation of the Father's glory. 
II Cor. iv:6. 

3. Typical. Ex. iii:2. 

4. His prophetical glory. John xii:4i. 

5. In His humiliation. Phil. ii:8. 

6. In His resurrection. Rev. i: 1 7, 18. 

7. In His exaltation. I Tim. iii:i6. 

8. In His people. John xvii:io. 

9. The glory of His second coming. 
Titus ii: 13. 

W. W. Grimes. 



TREES AND RIVERS. 

"The river of God is full of water." 
Psa. lxv:g. 

Everything shall live whither the river 
cometh. Ezek. xlviiio,. 

The Christian is "like a tree planted by 
the rivers of water." Psa. i:3; Jer. xvii: 
8. 

The trees of the land planted there are 
"full of sap." Psa. civ:i6. 

They are "trees of righteousness." 
Isa. lxi:3. 

They are laden with fruit. Phil. i:ii; 
Col. i:io. 

They are evergreen. Psa. i.3. 

Their "branches run over the wall." 
Gen. xlix:22. 



They bring glory to God. Isa. lxi:3: 
I Pet. ii:Q ; Isa. xliii:2i. 

"Herein is My Father glorified, that 
ye bear mzich fruit; so shall ye be My 
disciples." John xv:8. 

"From Me is thy fruit found." Hos. 
xiv:8. 

Oh, fill me, Jesus, Saviour, with Thy love! 
Lead, lead me to the living- fount above; 
Thither may I, in simple faith, draw nigh, 
And never to another fc untain fly. 

But unto Thee. 

Rev. C. G. Baskerville, M. A. 

SEVEN NEW TESTAMENT COM- 
MANDMENTS. 

Personal. "Abide in me." John xv: 
, 2. 

Present Enjoyment. ' ' Remember me. " 
I Cor. xi:24. 

Fellowship. "Watch with me." Mark 
xiii:37. 

Reward to come. "Lay up treasures 
in heaven." Matt. vi:2o. 

Responsibility toward others. "Take 
ye away the stones." John xi:39. "Loose 
him and let him go." John XK44. 

Our business requiring haste. "Go ye 
into all the world and preach the Gospel 
to every creature." Mark xvi. T 5. 

Herbert R. Francis. 



CONSIDER. 
1. The riches of God's goodness. Rom. 



11:4. 

2. The riches of God's grace. Eph. i: 

7- 

3. The riches of God's mercy. Eph. 
11:4. 

4. The riches of God's glory. Rom. 
ix:23. 

5. The riches of God's wisdom. Rom. 
xi:33. God's knowledge. Rom. xi:33. 

6. The unsearchable riches of Christ. 
Eph. iii:S. "In everything ye were en- 
riched in him." I Cor. 1:5. (R. V.) 
He is "rich unto all that call upon Him." 
Rom. x:i2. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



185 



With such a God, such a Saviour, such 
riches — I can never be lonely. 

I can never be desponding 
I can never be poor. 
Rev. C. G. Baskerville, M. A. 



CROSSING JORDAN. 

Crushing Jordan. Joshua iii. Illus- 
trative of the Gospel. 

1. It was a strange way. 

Acts xvii:iS-2o. The Israelites did not 
expect such an opening. 

2. It was a new way. 

Heb. x:20. Jordan was never crossed 
in that way before. 

3. It was an easy way. 

Eph. ii:S, 9. No works were needed. 
No rafts to be constructed. No bridges 
to be erected. 

4. It was a short way. 

John vi:47. There was no drifting 
down with a current. They went straight 
over. (v. 16.) 

5. It was a safe way. John x:2S. 

All the people passed clean over. (v. 

170 

6. It was a divinely appointed way. 
John iii:i6. Joshua did not devise it, 

nor Israel ask for it. (v. 7, 8.) 

7. It was the only way. 

Acts iv:i2. If they had refused to ac- 
cept it, they could not have crossed Jordan. 
Alf. Sandham. 



THE GLORY OF GOD. 

Foundation Text — "The glory of the 
Lord filled the tabernacle." (Ex. xl:35.) 

I. Its visible manifestation. 

The symbol of the Divine Presence. 
Moses' desired to behold it. God gives 
the conditions. Ex. xxxiii:i8, 21, 23. 

Theglory in the tabernacle. Ex. xl:34. 

In connection with blessing. Lev. ix: 
23- 

Defending. Num. xv;:42. 

Comforting. Num. xx:6. 



In connection with judgment. Num. 
xvi: 19; Ex. xxiv:i7. 

Rebuking. Ex. xvi: 10. 

2. Its Spiritual Unfolding. 

In the person of Christ. II Cor. iv:6. 

Beheld by faith. John 1:14. 

Seen in His miracles. John xi:4-40. 

Christ the brightness of the Father's 
glory. Heb. i:3. 

Set forth in the transfiguration. Matt. 
xvii:i; Mark ix:2; Luke ix:22. 

3. Its Transforming Effect. 
Moses outwardly. Ex. xxxiv:2g. 

The believer spiritually. II Cor. iii: 18. 

The glory to shine not merely upon us 
but within us. The Church the habita- 
tion of God through the Spirit. Eph. ii: 
22. 

God transforms us by possessing us — 
just as he dwelt in the bush. Ex. iii:2. 
Christ in you. Col. v.i'j. 

Evan H. Hopkins. 



PROPHECY AND FULFILMENT. 

Isa. lv:3. 

Prophecy: "He is despised and rejected 
of men." 

Fulfilment-. "And they cried out all at 
once, saying, Away with this man," Luke 
xxiii:i8. "Have any of the rulers or of 
the Pharisees believed on him?" John 
vii:48. 

Prophecy: "Surely he hath borne our 
griefs, and carried our sorrows," Isa. lv.4. 

Fulfilment: "My soul is exceeding sor- 
rowful, even unto death." Matt. xxvi:38. 

Prophecy: "Yet we did esteem him 
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, " 
Isa. lv:4. 

Fulfilment: "My God, my God, why 
hast thou forsaken me!" Matt. xxvii:46. 

Prophecy: "He was wounded for our 
transgressions," Isa. lv:5. 

Fulfilment: "The Son of man came. . . . 
to give his life a ransom for many." Matt. 
xx:2S; "So Christ was once off ered to bear 
the sins of many." Heb. ix:^S. 



i86 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Prophecy: "He was afflicted, yet he 
opened not his mouth," Isa. liii:7. 

Fulfilment: "And when he was accused 
of the chief priests and elders, he ans- 
wered nothing." Matt. xxvii:i2. 

Prophecy: "And he made his grave 
wiLh the wicked, and with the rich in his 
death," Isa. liii:g. 

Fulfilment: Two thieves were crucified 
with him, and Joseph of Arimathea, a 
rich man, laid him in his own tomb. Matt. 
xxvii^S, 59, 60. 

Prophecy: "He had done no violence, 
neither was any deceit in his mouth," Isa. 
\m:g. 

Fulfilment: "Behold, I .have found 

no fault in this man," etc. Luke xxiii:i4, 

15. 

Anon, 



TN THE MIDST." 

I. Jesus Himself, in the World. Acts 
ii:22. 

1. "A Man approved of God among you 
by miracles and wonders and signs, which 
God did by Him in the midst of you." 
Peter's address at Pentecost. 

2. On the cross. "They crucified 
Him, and two others with Him, on either 
side one, and Jesus in the midst." John 
xix:i8. 

3. His sufferings. "My heart is like 
wax; it is melted in the midst of my 
bowels." Ps. xxii:i4. 

4. His exaltation. "Ln the midst of 
the congregation will I praise Thee." 
Ps. xxii:22. 

5. His future glory. "Rule Thou in 
the midst of Thine enemies." Ps. cx:2. 

6. His priestly work. In the midst of 
the seven golden candlesticks. Rev. i: 

13- 

7. With His people. The Holy One. 
Isa. xii:6. Hos. xi:g. 

Future. The Lamb. Rev. v:6; vii:i7. 
Present. Jesus Himself. Matt, xviii: 
20. 



The Peacegiver. Luke xxiv:36; John 
xx:i9, 26. 

II. The Tree of Life. 

In the midst of the garden. Gen. ii:g; 
iii : 3 . 

In the midst of the paradise of God. 
Rev. ii:7; xxii:2. 

III. The Lord's People. Present— 

1. Walk in the midst of trouble. Ps. 
cxxxviii:7. 

2. In the midst of a people of unclean 
lips. Isa. vi:5. 

3. In the midst of a crooked and per- 
verse generation. Phil, ii :i 5. 

4. In the midst of wolves — as sheep. 
Matt. x:i6. 

5. In the midst of the fire — walking. 
Dan. iii:25. 

IV. Trespass in the midst — Achan — 
Jericho. Josh. vii. 

V. A Woman hi the midst — Sin. John 
viii:g. 

VI. A little Child in the midst. Matt, 
xviii :2; Mark ix:36. 

VII. The Veil rent in the midst. 
Luke xxiii:45. 

"My son attend to my words. . . .keep 
them in the midst of thine heart." Prov. 
iv:20 21. 

S. TlNSLEY 



OX DELIVERANCE. 

The Deliverer promised. Rom. xi:26. 
He was delivered by God. Acts ii:23. 
Yet ye have taken. Acts iii: 13. 
By chief priests and elders. Matt. 
xxvii:2. 

By Pilate. John xix:i6. 
Who for? Rom. viii:32. 
Why? Our offences. Rom. iv:24. 

HE CAME TO DELIVER. 

From the pit. Job xxxiii:24. 
From the fear of death. Heb. 11:15. 
From the wrath to come. I Thess. i: 
10. 

From the law. Rom. vii:6. 

From this present evil world. Gal. i:4« 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I8 7 



From captivity. Luke iv:i8. 
From our enemies. Luke i : 74. 

WARNINGS. 

None other can deliver the lawful cap- 
tive. Isa. xlix:24. 

Out of My hand. Isa. xliir.13. 

From the grave. Psa. lxxxix:48. 

Not by strength. Amos ii:i-4, 15. 

Then a great ransom cannot deliver. 
Job xxxvkiS. 

DELIVERANCE PROMISED TO THOSE 

Who call. Psa. 1:15. 

Fear him. Psa. xxxiv:7. 

Hope in His mercy. Psa. xxxiir.19. 

Considereth the poor. Psa. xli:i. 

Set his love upon Me. Psa. xci:i4. 

The godly. II Pet. ii:9 

And even to old age. Isa. xlvi:4. 

THE CHILD OF GOD CAN SAY 

Thou hast from hell. Psa. Ixxxvi: 

13 

From all trouble. Psa. liv:7. 
From my fears. Psa. xxxiv:4. 
Soul from death. Psa. cxvi:8. 
Eyes from tears. Psa. cxvi:8. 
Feet from falling. Psa. cxvi:8. 
Thou art my . Deliverer. Psa. lxx:5. 
E. A. K. 

PLENTEOUS REDEMPTION. 

With the Lord plenteous redemption. 
Psa. cxxx:;. 

Redemption is price paid for re-pur- 
chase. This taught in respect to land. 
Lev. xxv. 

Redemption of first born. Ex. xiii:i3: 
seq. xxxiv:20. 

Redemption of Levites; they were to 
be the Lord's. Num. iii:i2. 

None can redeem a brother. Psa. xlix:7. 

Must be by Christ. Hosea xiii: 14. 

Through His blood. I Pet. i:iS, 19. 

This means forgiveness of sins. Eph. 
i:7; Col. i: 14. 

Delivered from the law. Gal. iii:i3; 
iv:3-7. 



From all iniquity. Titus ii : 14. 

From present evil. Gal. 1:4; see Psa. 
xxxiv:7. 

Removal of rebuke. Isa. xxv:S. 

This redemption eternal. Heb. ix:i2. 

Song of redeemed. Rev. v:9. 

All this has been done because the re- 
demption of souls is precious. Ps. xlix:8; 
Rev. Robert L. Dustow. 



PRIDE. 

"AND POUR CONTEMPT ON ALL MY 
PRIDE." 

The life and death of our Lord Jesus 
Christ are a standing rebuke to every 
form of pride to which men are liable. 
Take for instance — 

Pride of birth and rank. "Is not this 
the carpenter's son ?" 

Pride of wealth. "The Son of Man 
hath not where to lay His head." 

Pride of respectability. "Can any 
good thing come out of Nazareth?" "He 
shall be called a Nazarene." 

Pride of personal appearance. "He 
hath no form nor comeliness." 

Pride of reputation. "Behold, a man 
gluttonous and a wine-bibber, a friend of 
publicans and sinners." 

Pride of independence. "Many others, 
who ministered to Him of their sub- 
stance." 

Pride of learning. "How knoweth 
this man letters, having never learned ?" 

Pride of superiority. "I am among 
you as He that serveth." "He humbled 
Himself." "Made a curse for us." 

Pride of success. "He came unto His 
own, and His own received Him not." 
"Neither did His brethren believe on 
Him." "He was despised and rejected 
of men." 

Pride of self-reliance. "He went down 
to Nazareth, and was subject unto 
them." 

Pride of ability. "I can of mine own 
self do nothing." 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Pride of self-will. "I seek not mine 
own will, but the will of Him that sent 
Me." 

Pride of intellect. "As My Father 
hath taught Me, I speak these things." 

Pride of bigotry. "Forbid him not 
for he that is not against us is on our 
part." 

Pride of resentment. "Father, forgive 
them, for they know not what they do." 
''Friend, wherefore art thou come ?" 

Pride of reserve. "My soul is exceed- 
ing sorrowful even unto death. Tarry ye 
here, and watch with Me." "The Son 
of Man must suffer many things, and be 
rejected." 

Pride of sanctity. "This man receiveth 
sinners, and eateth with them." 

"But God forbid that I should glory, 
save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
by whom the world is crucified unto me, 
and I unto the world." Gal. vi:i4. 

GOD'S NAMES REPRESENTING 
LIFE. 

Living God. Heb. xii:22. 
Living Father. Johnvi:57. 
Living Word. Heb. iv:i2. 
Living Way. Heb. x:20. 
Living Water. John iv:io 
Living Bread. Johnvi:5i. 
Living Stone. I Peter ii:4. 
Living Fountain. Rev. vii:i7. 
Through the breath of a living God, 
man became a living soul. Gen. ii:7. 
Mrs. T. C. Rounds. 

TWELVE CLASSES OF PERSONS 
WHOM GOD CONSIDERS FOOLS. 

Those who say: "There is no God." 
Ps. xiv:i, f. c. 

Those who trust in outward forms. 
Luke XK38-40. 

Those who build upon the sand, not on 
the Rock. Matt. vii:26. 

Those who are not ready for the Bride- 
groom's coming. Matt. xxvv2. 



Those who despise instruction. Prov. 
xv:5, f c. 

Those who trust in their own hearts. 
Prov. xxviii:26, f. c. 

Those who get rich by a wrong busi- 
ness. Jer. xvii:u. 

Those who lay up their treasure here. 
Luke xii:20. 

Those who utter slander. Prov. x:i8, 
1. c. 

Those who are soon angry. Eccl. vii: 
9; Prov. xiv:i7, f. c. 

Those who are wise with worldly wis- 
dom. I Cor. iiing, f. c. 

Those who are slow to believe God's 
Word. Luke xxiv:25. 

Miss Katie Clark. 



"GOD AND LITTLE CHILDREN." 

I. God claims the children. Ezek. xviii: 
4; Ex. xiii:2; Num. 3:12, 13; Matt, xix: 

II. He makes a distinction bettveen the 
children of believers and unbelievers. I 
Cor. vii: 1 4. And it is of believing parents' 
children that the Scriptures principally 
treat. Those in covenant relation with 
Himself. These only can realize their 
obligation and fulfil their duty. 

III. They are His choicest blessing. 
Gen. xxxiii:.s; xlviii:9; Ps. cxxvii:3; 
cxxviii. (Hebrew — a possession, a por- 
tion assigned of God.) 

IV. He gives command (1) as to their 
training, Deut. vi:4-9; J n0 - xxi:i5. (2) 
As to their treatment, (a) To be cor- 
rected, Prov. xxii: 15; xxix:i5; xxiii: 3,14. 
(b) Not to be provoked. Eph. vr.4. (3) 
To be provided for. II Cor. xii:i4. 

V. He gives promises, (1) Of the Holy 
Spirit, Isa. xliv:3; Acts 11:38, 39. (2) Of 
their faith, Isa. lix:2l. (3) Of their god- 
ly integrity. Ps. xlv:';6; Prov. xx:7. 

VI. lie goes beyond parental dealing — 
and gives them (') commands, Col. iii:20. 
(2) Promises, Prov. iii: 1-10. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I09 



VII. He uses them as types of character 
for Ms Kingdom. Matt. xviii:3. 

VIII. God's thought of the children 
finds its fullest declaration in this fact. 
Gal. iv:4; Matt. ii::i; Isa. ix:6. 

Rev. J. A. R Dickson, B. D. 



COVENANT OF GRACE. 

(a) Doctrine of the Covenant, Scriptural. 
Matt. xxvi:2S; Mark xiv:2-|.; Luke xxii: 

20; Heb. xiii:2o; Zech. ix:n; Heb. xii. 
24; Isa. xlii:6; xliv:8. 

(b) Names, titles, or terms of the 
Covenant, descriptive of its character. 

Heb. viii:6, "Better." 
Luke xxii: 20, "New." 
Heb. xiii:20, "Everlasting." 
Heb. ix:i5; Isa. liii ; 3 . 
Grace in its Organization. Manifest- 
ation. Consummation. 

(c) Parties to the Covenant. Father, 
Son and Holy Spirit; specially Father and 
Son, the Spirit concurring. Ps. lxxxix:3, 
34; Actsxiii:34, 37; Isa. xlii:6; liihg, 10; 
lix:2i; Titus lii : : 5 , 6; Zech. vi:i2, 13. 

Action of the Father. Gal. iv:4; I 
John iv:i4. 

In Love. John iii:i6; II Tim. i:g; 
Titus i:2; Rom. v:8. 

As Sovereign. Rom. ix:i5, 16; Eph. 
i:4, 6; John vi:37; xvii:6. 

Holy and Righteous. Zech. xiii:7; Isa. 
liii:6, 10. 

2. Action of the Son. 

As Representative. Rom. v:i2*2i; I 
Cor. x\:2i, 22, 47, 49. 

As Mediator. I Tim. ii : 5 ; Heb. viii: 
6; xii 124. 

As Surety. Heb. vii:22. 

(d) Conditions of the Covenant. Per- 
fect Righteousness, which involves: 

r. Identity with His people. Heb. ii: 
14, 16, 17. 

2. Identified with them in their trials, 
etc. Heb. ii:i7, iS; iv:is; Luke iv.1-12; 
Ps. xxii:2; lxix:iS, 20. [iv:5 

3. Idenified with them in Law. Gal. 



4. Identified with their sins, as Sin 
Bearer. Isa. liii 14, 5, 10; I Cor. xv:3; 
II Cor. v:2i; I Pet. ii:24; Rom. vi:8 

(e) Promises of the Covenant. 

To Christ, Endowment. Heb. i:5; Isa 
xi:2, 3; xlix:i, 2, 3; lxi:i, 2; xliiM-6; 1:7. 

1. Resurrection. Ps. xvi:8, 11; Acts 
ii:24, 30, 31; Heb. v:7. 

2. Sovereign Authority. Ps. ii:6; 
lxxxix:ig; cx:i, 3; Matt. xxviii:i8. 

3. Gift of the Spirit. Acts ii:33; John 
xiv:24; xv.26, 27; Eph. iv:8-i3. 

4. An Innumerable Throng of the Re- 
deemed. Isa. liii;io, 12; Rev. vii:io. 

5. A glorious Kingdom on Earth. Ps. 
lxxii:7-2o; Dan. vii:i3, 14. 

To the Believer in Chi ist. 

1. Eternal Life. John xvii:2. 

2. Pardon. Matt. xxvi:28; Jer. xxxi: 
31! Zech. ix:n. 

3. Regeneration. Jer. xxxi:33; Heb. 
viii: 10. 

4. Sanctification. John xvii:i7; I 
Thess. v:23, 27; Ezek. xxxvi:25. 

5. Final Perseverance. John iv:i4; x: 
27, 28; xvii:ii. 

6. Eternal Glory. John xiv:i-4; xvii: 
24. 

(f) Requirements in order to participate 
in the Blessing of the Covenant. 

Faith and Confession. John Hi: 16; 
Rom. x:6-9- 

Prof. Moorehead. 

THE BUILDING OF CHARACTER. 

1. The foundation. Isa. xxviii:i6; I 
Cor. iii: 9-1 1 ; I Pet. ii:6; Mark xii:io; 
Actsiv:ii, 12; Matt. vii:24-29. 

2. The Building. I Cor. iii:i2; I Pet. 
ii:4, 5; Eph. ii:ig-22; I Cor. iii:i6; Col. 
ii:6. 

3. The Test. I Cor. iii: 13; Mal.iii:i7, 
iS; iv:i; Matt. xxv:29, 32. 

The Reward. I Thess. ii:ig; I Pet. 
v.4; Matt. xxv:2i, 23, 34. 

Anon. 



190 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



GALATIANS 11:19, 20. 
"I am Dead to the law." 

a. Through the law. Gal. iiitio, 

b. Through the body of Christ. 



13. 



"/have been crucified with Christ. 

The flesh. Gal. v.24. 

The old man. Rom vi:4. 

"Nevertheless I live." 

Alive from the dead. Rom. vi:i3. 

Alive unto God through (or in) Jesus 
Christ. Rom. vkii. 

Live through Him. I John iv:9. 

"Yet not I." 

"The flesh." Gal. v:24; or the "old 
man." Rom. vi:4. 

Not Saul of Tarsus, the Persecutor. 
Not this old self; "but Christ liveth in 
me." 

"Christ who is our life." Col. iii:4. 

I am the life. John xiv:6. 

Christ in them the hope of glory. Col. 
i:2 7 . 

"I in them." John xvii:23. 

"That I might live unto God." Gal. 
ii*ig. 

"Alive unto God through Jesus Christ." 
Rom. vi:n. 

Live according to God. I Pet. iv:6. 

We should not live unto ourselves but 
unto Him who died for us and rose again. 
II Cor. v:i5. 

"I live by the faith of the Son of God." 

Being a Christian does not consist in 
one act of faith, it consists in living a life 
of faith. 

The just shall live by faith. Rom. i:i7; 
Gal. iii:n; Heb. x:38. 

We walk by faith. II Cor. v:7. 

By faith ye stand. II Cor. K24. 

Thou standestby faith. Rom. xi:20. 

"For we which live are always deliv- 
ered unto death, for Jesus' sake, that the 
life also of Jesus might be made manifest 
in our mortal flesh." II Cor. iv:ii. 

"Who loved me and gave Himself 
for me." 

"Christ also hath lovecLus, and hath 



given Himself for us, an offering and a 
sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling sa- 
vour." Eph. v:2. 

" IV ho loved me." 

"Unto Him that loved us and washed 
us from our sins in His own blood. . . .to 
Him be the glory and dominion for ever 
and ever." Amen. 

R. McJannet. 



FEAR. 
I. Holy or Godly fear. That disposition 
of soul wrought in the believer by the 
Holy Spirit, which inclines him to obey all 
God's commands and submit to His will 
in all things, and this not from fear of 
punishment but from love, which would 
not offend a holy, loving God. The 
Scriptures define this fear to be: 

1. To hate evil. Prov. viii:i3. 

2. The fountain of life. Prov. xiv:2y. 

3. The beginning of wisdom. Prov. i: 



\. The instruction of wisdom. Prov. 
xv:33. 

5. Strong confidence. Prov. xiv:26. 
Blessings to such as fear Him. 

1. Salvation nigh those that fear Him. 
Ps. lxxxv:9. 

2. He pitieth them that fear Him. Ps. 
ciii:i3. 

3. His mercy on them that fear Him. 
Luke i:50 

4. His eye upon them that fear Him. 
Ps. xxxiii:i8. 

5. His angel encampeth around them. 
Ps. xxxiv:7. 

6. He giveth them meat. Ps. cxi:5. 

7. Fulfilleth the desire of them that 
fear Him. Ps. cxlv:i9. 

8. Telleth them His secrets. Ps. xxv: 
14. 

9. Taketh pleasure in those that fear 
Him. Ps. cxlvii:n. 

10. Giveth a reward to them that fear 
Him. Rev. xi:i8. 

"Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the 
day long." Prov. xxiii:i7. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



I 9 I 



TWO SIDES TO TRUTH. 

Heresy, according to the derivation of 
the word, means choosing. In its original 
import it does not imply error so much as 
a selection of truth to the exclusion of 
other truth that ought to have been con- 
sidered. Of course the selection leads to 
error, but in the first instance the fault 
consisted in taking truth out of its sur- 
roundings, and giving to it undue promi- 
nence and proportion. God has endowed 
us with two eyes to read His revealed 
will, with two ears to hear His word, with 
two hands to work in His service, with 
two feet to walk in His way; and He has 
presented truth in a twofold aspect 
which should always be remembered. 

1. "God is light," (I John i:5); and 
"God is love," (I John iv:8). If we for 
get either, or if we do not hold fast to 
both in our conception of His nature and 
character, heresy is sure to be the result 
A once useful and honored evangelist is 
traveling through the country, wearing 
upon his coat a badge with the inscription, 
"God is love, and nothing else." His 
heresy on this point has made shipwreck of 
his faith, and of the faith of all who are 
weak enough to be influenced by his 
teaching. 

2. God is the loving Father of the be- 
liever, but He is still the holy God. 
Hence the message the risen Jesus sent 
to His disciples, "I ascend unto my 
Father, and your Father; and to my God, 
and your God." (John xx:i7). 

3. We are as dependent upon God, as 
though we had nothing to do; we are as 
responsible, as though God had nothing 
to do with our salvation. "No man can 
come to me, except the Father which sent 
me draw him," (John vi:44); "and ye will 
not come to me, that ye might have life." 
(John v. 40.) 

4. The Bible is of God, for "all Script- 
ure is given by inspiration of God." (II 
Tim. iii:i6); and the Bible is of man, for 



"holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost." (II Pet. i 
21.) 

5. Christ is perfect God, so that the be- 
liever does not hesitate to say to Him 
with Thomas, "My Lord and my God" 
(John xx. 28); and He is perfect man, for 
"there is one mediator between God and 
men, the man Christ Jesus." (I Tim. ii: 
5). 

6. Salvation is a present thing, for 
"this day is salvation come to this house" 
(Luke xix:c;); and it is a future thing, for 
"unto them that look for him shall he ap- 
pear the second time, without sin, unto 
salvation." (Heb. ix:28). 

7. We are justified before God by faith 
alone, without works. "Therefore we 
conclude that man is justified by faith 
without the deeds of the law." (Rom. Hi: 
28). But we are justified before men by 
works. "Ye see then how that by works 
man is justified, and not by faith only." 
(Jas. ii:24). 

8. We are sanctified in God's sight the 
moment we believe, for it is said to those 
who had been among the vilest, "But ye 
are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are 
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, 
and by the Spirit of our God." (I Cor. vi: 
11). Sanctification is also a progressive 
experience. "This is the will of God, 
even your sanctification' ' (I Thess. iv:3). 

9. The Holy Spirit abides with and in 
the believer, in fulfilment of the promise. 
"He dwelleth with you and shall be in 
you." (John xiv:i7). He also comes upon 
the believer for testimony and service. 
'"Ye shall receive power, after that the 
Holy Ghost is come upon you." (Acts i: 
8). 

ic. The Holy Spirit dwells in the indi- 
vidual believer. "Know ye not that your 
body is the temple of the Holy Ghost 
which is in you." (I Cor. vhig). He also 
dwells in the church of Christ, "In whom 
ye are builded together for an habitation 



192 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



of God through the Spirit." (Eph. ii:22.) 

11. The Holy Spirit is the seal, mark- 
ing us as God's own possession, and He 
is the earnest, giving us the foretaste and 
enjoyment of God's love. "Ye were 
sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, 
which is the earnest of our inheritance." 
(Eph. 1:13, 14). 

12. The Holy Spirit makes intercession 
for us down here, for "the Spirit himself 
maketh intercession for us with groanings 
which cannot be uttered" (Rom. viii:26); 
and Christ at the right hand of God "also 
maketh intercession for us." (Rom viii: 
34). 

13. There is a rest which Jesus gives, 
and there is a rest which the obedient be- 
liever finds. "Come unto me all ye that 
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give 
you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and 
learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in 
heart; and ye shall find rest unto your 
souls." (Matt. xi:28, 29). 

14. The believer has the flesh in him, 
of which it is written, "I know that in 
me (that is, in my flesh), dwelleth no 
good thing." (Rom. vii.18); and he also 
has the Spirit in him, implanting a new 
life, implanting a new nature, that cannot 
sin, because born of God. (I John iii:g) 
"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and 
ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh." 
(Gal. v:i6). 

15. Christ is the burnt offering, infi- 
nitely acceptable to the Father, and He is 
also the sin offering, causing God to hide 
His face from Him. (Eph. v:2; Matt.xxvii 
46). 

16. Christ is exalted "to give repent 
ance," and God "now commandeth all 
men everywhere to repent." (Acts v:3i 
xvii:3o). 

17. The believer shall not come into 
judgment concerning his sins, and the be 
liever must appear before the judgment 
seat of Christ to be judged according to 
his works. ( John v:24; ILCor. v:io). 



18. There are two advents of Christ, 
the one in grace, and the other in glory; 
and he is a heretic who does not believe 
both, and give to both their proper place 
in his thoughts and discourse. (Heb. ix: 
26; II Tim. iv:8). 

19. There are two resurrections, one at 
the coming of the Lord for His people, 
the other at the end of the thousand 
years of millennial blessedness. (I Cor. 
xv:23; Rev. xx:5, 6). 

20. There are two Jerusalems, one the 
center and capital of Christ's earthly em- 
pire, and the other the heavenly city, ever 
shining in the glory of God and the Lamb. 
(Isa. xxxiii:2o; Rev. xxi:io, 11. 

21. There are two gospel ordinances, 
baptism, setting, forth our death with 
Christ, and the Lord's Supper, setting- 
forth His death for us. Rom. vi.3; I Cor. 
XK24-26. 

Rev. J. H. Brookes, D. D. 

PRAYER. 

There are two methods of holding com- 
munication between God and man. On 
the part of God, through his word, and 
on the part of man, by prayer. In 
the first way God speaks to man, in the 
other way man speaks to God. In His 
word, the Lord makes known His mind 
and will, concerning us; in prayer, we 
make known our desires and needs to 
Him. 

Notice the relationship — prayer enables 
us to understand the Word (Psa. cxix:i8), 
and the Word tells us how to pray (Matt. 
vi:9). The disciples had been with Jesus, 
heard His parables, saw His miracles and 
had also seen Him pray. They noted 
that a secret life of prayer enabled Him 
to do His mighty works, and that if He 
needed to pray, so did they. Luke xi:i, 
"Lord teach us to pray" Was their earnest 
cry. We will now see how He answered 
the'r request. And if we feel our own 
deficiency in this matter, and our great 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



1 93 



need of instruction, the Lord will meet 
our wants by telling us how to hold com- 
munication with Him. 

I. Be alone with God. Matt. vi:6. 
"Pray to thy Father which is in secret." 

The Old Testament does not give in- 
struction in prayer as the Master does, 
and the first lesson He inculcates is, that 
when we pray, we should be alone with 
God. Rome tells the penitent one to 
confess to the priest, but Jesus says, con- 
fess to God. The closet is the true con- 
fessional, for there we can tell our inmost 
thoughts, and express our heartfelt desires. 
And "while they are yet speaking, I will 
hear." 

Constantine the Great said as he was 
looking at the statues of noted men, 
''These are all standing, I shall have 
mine taken kneeling, for that is how I 
have risen into eminence." Enter into 
thy closet. 

II. Be Definite. Luke xviir.41. Jesus 
knew what this man wanted but He said 
"What wilt thou that I should do unto 
thee?" Much prayer is vague and gen- 
eral. Illustration of Private and Public 
Prayer. 

The trained English troops at Majuba 
were mowed down like grass by the wild 
Boers, because the latter took definite 
aim, each one singling out his man. 
A score of young men were converted in 
a certain church because an old colored 
woman in the gallery singled out one at a 
time during the sermon, and prayed that 
the truth might reach that one soul. Be 
definite. 

III. Be Importunate, that is, persistent, 
urgent. The Parable of the friend at 
midnight, (Luke xi:5-8) teaches the neces- 
sity of importunity in prayer. In the 
context this word means "disregard of 
manners." This man is not standing on 
ceremony, he waives all proprieties and 
courtesies., and arises at midnight, pounds 
at the door of his friend and says, "Lend 

13 



me three loaves." A refusal has no effect 
whatever, and he keeps on hammering at 
that door till his friend arises from off his 
bed and gives him all he needs. This is im- 
portunity. Then follow the words: Ask, 
seek, knock. If you do not at first re- 
ceive, ask again. If you do not find, 
seek again. If the door be not opened, 
knock again, and keep on knocking. 
"When will you leave off begging?" said 
Queen Elizabeth to Raleigh. And the 
answer was, "When your Majesty leaves 
off giving." Importunity shows the in- 
tensity of our feeling and desire. 

IV. Be Incessant. "Men ought al- 
ways to pray." Luke xviii:i-8. This 
woman was incessant and persevering. 
The Lord led a life of continued prayer, 
and so should we. Paul says. "Pray 
without ceasing." It was said of Martin 
Luther, when he walked the streets: 
"There goes a man who can have anything 
he wants of God." Why ? Because he 
led a life of prayer. On one occasion he 
declared that he had so much to do, was 
weighted down with so many responsi- 
bilities that he could not go through the 
day without spending two or three hours 
in prayer. My father asked Geo. Muller 
how he carried on his great work in Bris- 
tol while traveling around the world. 
To which this man of faith replied: "Can- 
not I pray upon the ocean, and here in 
Albany, as well as in England?" 

They who seek the throne of grace, 
Find that throne in every place. 
If we lead a life of prayer, 
God is present everywhere. 

V. Be sure of the answer. Heb. xi: 
6, Luke xi:9, 10. In this emphatic lan- 
guage the Lord wants to assure us that 
Pie is the hearer and answerer of prayer. 
Matt. xxi:22. If we do not receive, "it 
is because we ask amiss." There are 
two ways of answering prayer: By com- 
plying and refusing. God's "No" is as 
much an answer as His "Yes," and is 



194 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



better for us when He says it.. Be as- 
sured that God is a re warder of them who 
diligently seek Him, and that He will 
answer the petition of His servants. 

Rev. Wm. W. Clark. 



"WATTING" IN THREE DIF- 
FERENT ASPECTS. 

I. Waiting tipon God — in patient ex- 
pectation. 

Ps. cxlv:i5. "The eyes of all w T ait up- 
on me," etc. 

Ps. cxxiii:2. "Our eyes shall wait up- 
on Thee Lord until," etc. 

Ps. xxvii:i4. "Wait on the Lord, be 
of good cow-age" etc. 

Ps. xxxvii:34. "Wait on the Lord and 
keep His way." 

Ps. lixig. "Because of His strength 
will I wait upon Thee." 

Ps. lxix:3. "Mine eyes fail while I wait 
for my God." 

Lam. iii:26. "It is good that a man 
should both hope and quietly wait," etc. 

Hab. ii:3. "Though it tarry, wait for 
it." 

Zeph. iii:8. "Therefore wait upon me, 
saith the Lord until the day," etc. 

II. Waiting on God — in active service, 
as in II Kings v:2. 

Num. iii:i6. Priestly service. 
Num. viii:24. Levite service. 

I Chron. xxiii:28. Variety of this 
service. 

II Chron. xiii:io, n. It was their 
business. 

I Kings x:8. To "stand before the 
King" was service. 

Isa. 11:5. The Isles shall wait upon 
me; having just "waited for His law. Isa. 
xlii:4. 

III. Waiting for something in the 
future. 

James v.7. "The precious fruit of the 
earth." 

Gal. v:5. "The Hope of Righteous- 
ness." 



I Thess. i:io. "His son from heaven." 

I Cor. v.i. "The Coming of the Lord." 

II Thess. Hi: 5 . "The patient waiting 
for Christ." 

Rom. viii:23. "The Adoption — The 
Redemption" of the body. 

Rom. viiing. "The manifestation of 
the sons of God." 

PROMISES TO WAITING ONES. 

Lam. iii:25. "The Lord is good" to 
such. 

Isa. xxx:i8. They are "blessed." 

Isa. xl:3i. "They shall renew their 
strength." 

Isa. xli*:23. "They shall not be 
ashamed." 

Prov. xxvii:i8. "He that waiteth en 
his Master shall be honored." 

Prov. xx:22. "Wait on the Lord and 
He shall save thee." 

Psa. xxxvikg. ''Those that wait upon 
the Lord, they shall inherit the earth." 

Isa. xxv:9. "It shall be said in that 
day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited 
for Him and He will save us." 

Miss B. E. Mudie. 



FOREIGN MISSIONARIES. 
Read John xvii. 

1. Our commission. John xx:2i. 

2. Our work. Mark xvi:i5; I Thess. 
ii:4 (c. f. I Cor. x:33); II Cor. iv:5-7. 

3. Our aim. II Cor. x:i2-i8. 

4. Our source of supply. Phil. iv:ig. 

5. Our creed. II Pet. i: 19-21; Isa. 
xl:8. 

6. Our hope. I John iii: 1-3. R. V. ; 
Heb. vi:i9, 20. 

7. Our motto. "Jehovah Nissi." Ex. 
xvii:i5; Ps. lx:4. 

Remember Ps. xliv:3. 

W. A. B. 



A DINNER FROM THE BIBLE. 
Spread the cloth of blue, and put there- 
on the dishes, and the spoons and the 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



195 



bowls, with the bread in a basket. Num. 
iv:7; Lev. viii:3i. 

Salt, without describing how much, and 
oi! in a cruise. Ezra vii:22; I Kings xvii: 
12. 

Bright shining of a candle giveth light. 
Luke xi:36. 

Tell them who are bidden, I have pre- 
pared my dinner. Matt. xxii:4. 

They are strong of appetite. Isa. lvi: 

Let us eat and be merry. Luke xv:23. 

The feast is made for laughter, wine 
makes merry. Eccles. x:io,. 

Ye hear all kinds of music. Dan. ili : 5 . 

Grace— Give us this day our daily — 
Matt, villi. 

SOUP. 

Pour out the broth. Judges vi:2o. 
Feed me with pottage. Gen. xxv:3o. 
Eat this roll. Ez. iii:i. 

FISH. 

We remember the fish we did eat freely. 
Num. xi:5. 

They gave Him a piece of a broiled 
fish. Luke xxiv:42. 

Bring of the fish which y« have now 
•caught. John xxi:io. 

ENTREMETS. 

Hare. Lev. xi:6. 
Chickens. Matt. xxiii:37. 
Besides hearts and fatted fowls. I 
Kings iv:23. 

Kidneys. Deut. xxxii:i4. 

RELISHES. 

Olives: Mic. vi:i5. 
Give me a little water, for I am thirsty. 
Judges iv:ig. 

ROAST. 

All manner of baked meats. Gen. xl: 
17. 

Ye may eat of the roebuck. Deut.xii:i5. 

Ye shall eat the wild goat and wild ox. 
Deut. xiv:5. 



VEGETABLES. 

Take unto thee wheat, lentils and mil- 
let. Ezek. iv:o,. 

They brought parched corn and beans. 
II Sam. xvii:2S. 

After that, full corn in the ear. Mark 
iv:2S. 

We remember the leeks and the onions 
and the cucumbers, and the garlic. Num. 
xi:5- 

The manna was a coriander seed. Num. 
xi:7. 

GAME. 

Partridges. Jer. xvii:ii. 
Two young pigeons. Lev. v:7. 
And he brought quails. Ps. cv:40. 
Carry these ten cheeses to the captain. 

I Sam. xvii: 18. 

DESSERT. 

Behold a basket of summer fruit. Amos 
viii:i. 

They brought of the pomegranates and 
figs. 1 Num. xiii:23. Comfort me with 
apples. Cant. ii:5. 

The children of Israel brought dates. 

II Chron. xxxi:5. 

Two baskets of figs. Jer. xxiv:2. 

Then thou mayst eat grapes thy fill. 
Deut. xxiii:24. 

We remember the melons. Num. xi:5. 

They brought bunches of raisins. I 
Chron. xii:40. 

Carry nuts and almonds. Gen. xliii.11. 
O. M. 



THREEFOLD MINISTRY 
OF CHRIST. 

There are three distinct characteristics 
of the ministry of our Lord— past, present, 
and future. And it is necessary to dis- 
criminate between these if we desire a 
clear apprehension of His completed work. 
We should see the difference between 
what He has done, what He is doing, and 
what He will do. The past work is 
expressed in the words, "It is finished." 



196 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



The present work is expressed in the 
words, "He ever liveth to make interces- 
sion for us. " The future work is expressed 
in the promise, "I will come again." 

I. — WHAT JESUS HAS DONE. 

His past ministry upon the earth was 
one of sorrows for Him, but in its results a 
blessed one for us. 

I. He left His Fathers koine, and 
glory (John xvii:5), and came down to 
this dark, sin-cursed earth. 

II. He took upon Himself kuman na- 
ture. Heb. ii: 17. God sent His Son in 
the likeness of sinful flesh. (Rom. viir.3). 
He became bone of our bone, flesh of our 
flesh, and was tempted in all points like 
as we are, yet without sin. Wonderful 
condescension, amazing love! 

III. He bore our sins. Here He ex- 
hibited still greater love. I Pet. ii:24. 
Jesus has borne the transgressions of 
many, the Lord hath laid upon him the 
iniquity of us all. 

IV. He died for us. John xv:i3; 
Rom. v:6; I Cor. xv:3. He died for us, 
and it was necessary that He should die. 
John xviii:i4. 

V. He has saved us. This was the 
result of His death. This was His mis- 
sion. His name implies this. (Matt. i:2i). 
The Son of Man came to save that which 
was lost. (Matt. xviii:ii). He was a 
Saviour.- (Luke ii:ii). See other Script- 
ures: John iii: 17; x:9: Acts iv:i2;' 7:31; 
Rom. x:g; I Tim. 1:15. 

VI. He has given us eternal life. This 
is a step further. We are not only saved 
from sin, death and hell, but saved unto 
eternal life. What is eternal life ? "This 
is the record, that God hath given to us 
eternal life, and this life is in His Son." 
I John v: 1 1. The character of this life 
is of more importance than its duration. 
To be forever with the Lord, this is eter- 
nal life. See also John v: 24; xvii:2; x: 
-■7-28. 

VII. He hath made us sons of God. 



This is the climax. But the moment we 
receive Jesus into our hearts we are 
brought into the new relationship of sons 
of God. (John i:i2; I John iii : 1 , 2; II 
Cor. vi:i8; Eph. 1:5). By His redeem- 
ing love we are brought right into the 
family of God. "For in the person of 
his Son, I am as near as He." 

II. — WHAT HE IS NOW DOING. 

I. He is sitting upon His Father's 
throne. In Heb. xii:2, we are exhorted 
to be "looking unto Jesus, who endured 
the cross, despising the shame and is set 
down at the right hand of the throne of 
God." Stephen saw Him standing (Acts 
vii:55, 5°). a s if waiting to return to the 
earth if His people would yet accept Him. 
But after Stephen's testimony was re- 
jected, and he was put to death, Jesus is 
represented as being seated on the throne. 
In Col. iii: 1, we are told to seek those 
things which are above, where Christ sit- 
teth at the right hand of God. He is sit- 
ting upon His Father's throne now, but 
when He comes to earth He will sit upon 
His own throne. Matt. xxv:3i. 

II. He is our High Priest. In Heb. 
ii:i7, iS, He is represented as a mercifuL 
and faithful high priest, to make recon- 
ciliation for the sins of His people. We 
are therefore enjoined to consider the 
apostle and high priest of our profession, 
Christ Jesus (Heb. iii:i.) He hath an 
unchangeable priesthood. (Heb. yii:24;, 
Heb. iv:n-i6). 

III. He is our Intercessor. Because he 
is our high priest, He ever liveth to make 
intercession for us. (Heb. vii:25). He 
died to make satisfaction, but he lives 
to make intercession. The idea that 
Christ is interceding for every one is 
unscriptural. He intercedes only for 
those "who come unto God by Him.' 

This includes all believers. Only those 
who have accepted His redemptive work 
on the cross, can receive the benefit of 
His intercessory work on the throne. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



IQ7 



IV. He is our Advocate. "If any man 
sin, we have an advocate with the Father, 
Jesus Christ the righteous." (I John ii: 
1.) Advocate means helper, counsellor, 
pleader. When Satan makes charges 
against us. then our Advocate takes up 
the case, and He always wins it. As 
Phocion of old invariably took up the 
hardest case to plead, so our Advocate 
pleads for those who need Him most. 

V. He is our Shepherd. (Ps. xxiii:i.) 
The Lord is my shepherd, not "will be," 
but "is," showing that this is His present 
work. He still says to us, "I am the 
good shepherd." The work of the shep- 
herd is to care and provide for his sheep. 
And if one wanders from the fold how 
diligently he seeks until he finds it. 

VI. He is preparing our future home. 
Just before Jesus left His disciples, He 
said: "In my Father's house are man) 
mansions (abiding places) , . . and I go 
to prepare a place for you." (John xiv:2). 
Christ is preparing a special place for us, 
and we are fitting ourselves to fill that 
place. And we can say, with all the 
assurance of the Apostle, "We know 
that if our earthly house of this tabernacle 
were dissolved, we have a building of 
God, a house not made with hands, 
eternal in the heavens." (II Cor. v:i.) 

III. . WHAT HE WILL DO. 

I. He will return. After his promise 
about our future home, He said: "And if 
I go and prepare a place for you, I will 
come again and receive you unto myself." 
(John xiv:3). This, and many similar 
passages, do not refer to death, but to the 
personal and visible return of our Lord. 
By death we go to Christ, at the time of 
His return He comes for us. Death is an 
enemy, the king of terrors; Christ is a 
friend, the king of glory. We dread the 
coming of death, but rejoice in the com- 
ing of Christ. The character of His 
coming is described in Acts i:ii. He 
ascended in a cloud. "Behold, he cometh 



with clouds, and every eye shall see Him." 
(Rev. i.7; Matt. xxvi:6_i..) And while we 
are rejoicing in "that blessed hope," let 
us watch and pray, and labor till the Mas- 
ter comes. 

II. He will raise the righteous dead. 
I Thess. iv:i6. "For the Lord himself 
shall descend from heaven with a shout, 
with the voice of the archangel and the 
trump of God; and the dead in Christ 
shall rise first." I Cor. xv:52. " The 
dead shall be raised incorruptible;" xv:43, 
44, "raised in glory," "raised in power," 

"'raised a spiritual body." (Story of 
Faraday and silver cup.) Rev. xx:6. 

III. He will translate living believers. 
Immediately after this resurrection, follow 
the words, "Then we which are alive and 
remain, shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the 
air. (I Thess. iv:l7.) Yes, this is our 
hope. (Phil. iii:2o, 21) There will be 
one generation of Christians who will not 
see death, but like Enoch and Elijah, will 
be taken up bodily to meet the Lord 
in the air. But one quotes in objection: 
"It is appointed unto men once to die, 
and after death, the judgment." True, 
this is the divine appointment, and has 
been for six thousand years, but, praise 
the Lord, there is a divine exception. 
"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all 
be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling 
of an eye." (I Cor. xv:5i, 52.) 

IV. He will reward His people. (Matt. 
xvi:27, II Cor. v:io, I Cor. iii:8, 1. c.) 
The character of this tribunal is set forth 
in the verses which follow the foregoing 
passage. All are redeemed who stand 
before this great assize, for it is a judg- 
ment of works. He whose works abide 
will receive an abundant reward, but he 
whose works are burned, will suffer loss, 
but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by 
fire. 

V. He will punish His enemies. We 
should be glad to omit this, but dare 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



not. Punishment is clearly revealed. In 
II Thess. i:7-9, is described the Lord's 
vengeance upon those who " know not 
God and obey not the gospel of the 
Lord Jesus Christ." The thought is 
overwhelming, but the word of the Lord 
is true. And it becomes us who are 
saved, to warn men "to flee from the 
wrath to come." Let the words of 
Richard Baxter be the inspiration of 
every minister of Jesus Christ. "I preach 
as if I'd never preach again, as a dying 
man to dying men." "Knowing, therefore 
the terror of the Lord, we persuade men." 
Let no such delusion as a probation after 
death enter our heart, or escape our lips, 
but let us with love and pity declare the 
awful doom awaiting those whose names 
are not written in the book of life. 

VI. He will make all things new. (Rev. 
xxi:5.) What a transformation ! His peo- 
ple rewarded — His enemies punished — 
the heavens passing away with a great 
noise — the earth melting with fervent 
heat. . And now a new heaven and 
new earth. The tabernacle of God is 
with men. They are His people, and 
He is their God. All tears are wiped 
away, there will be no more death, sorrow, 
crying or pain, for the former things are 
passed away, and He that sits upon the 
throne makes all things new. It is done. 
Now cometh the end — the kingdom is 
given to God the Father, that God may 
be all in all. (I Cor. xv:24, 28). 

Yes, this same Jesus will return; he 
will raise the dead, translate the living, 
reward His people, punish His enemies, 
and make all things new. 

Thus we have seen the threefold minis- 
try of our Lord — dying upon the cross; 
sitting upon the throne, coming in the 
clouds. "I am Alpha and Omega, the 
beginning and the ending, which is, and 
which was, and which is to come, the 
Almighty." (Rev. i:8.) To the guilty sin- 
ner He speaks from the cross. "Look 



unto Me, and be ye saved." To the 
desponding saint He speaks from the 
throne: "Fear thou not, for I am with 
thee;" To both saint and sinner He 
speaks from the clouds: " Watch ye, 
therefore, for ye know not what hour the 
Lord will come." 

Rev. W. W. Clark. 

NOTES ON JOHN'S FIRST 
EPISTLE. 

HIM. 

Again and again do we find the pro- 
noun "Him" occurring in this Epistle. 

I. We have heard of Him. i:5. 
Heard of His person. i:i. 

Heard of His commandment, ir.7; II 
John 6. 

Result of having heard it — testimony. 

i:3- 

What we have heard, that we are to 
love one another. iii:2. 

The word "heard" occurs ten times; 
twice that Aatichrist should come (ii:i8; 
iv:3), and twice that the truth which we 
have heard should remain in us. 

II. We know Him. ii:3. The key 
word of this Epistle is the word "know/' 
it occurs forty- eight times. 

I. What we know. 

Him that is from the beginning, ii: 

13, 14- 

God as our Father. ii:i 3. 

The love of God to us. iv:i6. 

The work of Christ for us. ili : 5 . 

That we have eternal life. v:i3. 

That the Holy Spirit is in us. iii:24; 
iv:i3. 

We are of God. v:io,. 

That the Son of God is come. v:20. 

Him that is true. v:20. 

That he is righteous. ii:2g. 

The truth, ii : 2 1 . 9 

He that is born of God sinneth not. 
v:i8. 

That He hears our prayers. v:i5. 

That we have the answer. v:i5. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



199 



That when he comes we shall be like 
Him. iii:2. 

That it is the last time. ii:i8. 
Those that are of the truth. iv:6. 
Then they are not of the truth. iv:6. 
That no murderer hath eternal life. 

iii:i5- 

All things. ii:20. 

2. The evidence that we know Him. 

If we keep His commandments. ii:3-5; 
Hi: 24. 

Saying we know Him, not sufficient, ii 14. 

Doeth righteousness. ii:2g. 

The world does not know us. iii:i. 

That we do not sin. iii:6. 

Love to the brethren. iii:i4. 

Loving in deed and in truth. iii:iS, iq. 

Confessing Christ. iv:2. 

Loving one another. iv7; v:2. 

Believing God's love to us. iv:i6. 

God knoweth all things. iii:20. 

III. We are in Him (v:20); our 
standing. What was not in Him — "sin." 
iii:5. 

The evidence that we are in Him — 
keeping His word, ii : 5. 

Abiding in Him. ii:6, 7, 28. 
Sinning not. iii:6. 
Hope in (set on) Him. iii:3. 
Keeping His commandments. iii:24. 
Loving one another. iv:l2. 
Dwelling in love. iv:i6. 
Confidence in prayer. v:i4. 

IV. Received of, or from Him. 
Unction — Holy Spirit. ii:20. 
Anointing. ii:27. 

Answer to prayer. iii:22. 

V. Born of Him, 0? God, occurs seven 
times. The new nature is begotten by 
Him, hence it cannot sin, because he is 
"born of God." iii:Q. 

The conduct of the new man. 

He doeth righteousness. ii:2g. 

Believeth that Jesus is the Christ. v:i. 

Overcometh the world. v:4. 

Sinneth not. ii :2g; v:i8. 

Lovetn those that are born of God. iv:7. 



VI. Fellowship with Him. This Epis- 
tle might be called the Epistle of fellow- 
ship. We might sum it up thus: 

Ground of fellowship. 

Christ manifested to us. i:3. Revela- 
tion. 

His death for us — Identification. 

Our union in and with Him. i:4 — Re- 
alization. 

Joy of fellowship. 

Our relation to God as Father — Rela- 
tionship. 

Our oneness with the Son — Union. 

The Word of God. i:4 - Assurance. 

Place of fellowship. 

"In the light," as we have fellowship 
with Him it will dispel the darkness of 
unbelief and ignorance, and the pride of 
self boasting. As we walk in the light, 
we shall: 

See our sinfulness. i:S. 

See the blood of Jesus Christ, God's 
Son cleansing us from all sin. i:7. 

See the faithfulness of God. kg. 

See the sinfulness of sinning. ii:i. 

See the ground of restoration. ii:i, 2. 

See the secret of true and practical 
knowledge in keeping His command- 
ments, ii : 3. 

See the hollowness of mere profession. 
ii:4. 

See God's purpose carried out in His 
love being perfected in us, as we keep His 
words, ii :5 . 

Secret of fellowship and result. 

Abiding in Him. ii:6. Fruit bearing. 

Walking as He walked. ii:6. Fol- 
lowing. 

Shining for Him. 11:7, 8. Testimony. 

Remembering the blessings you have 
for His namesake, ii: 12. Gratitude. 

Knowing Christ Himself, ii : 13. Drawn 
to Him. 

Knowing the Father, ii : 1 3- Pleasing 
Him. 

Word of God abiding in us. ii:i4. 
Victory. 



200 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



Separation from the world, ii: 1 5 , 16. 
Power. 

Doing the will of God. ii: 17. Joy. 

Discerning the times, ii: iS, 19. Dis- 
cernment. 

Power of fellowship. 

Holy Spirit — "Unction," ii:20-27. 

Law of fellowship. 

The truth— Word of God. ii:2i-26. 

Effect of fellowship. 

Confidence. ii:28. 

Beholding His love to us. iii:i. 

Hated by the world. iii:2. 

Longing to see Jesus. iii:2. 

Purifying ourselves. iii:3. 

Subject to Christ. iii:4-'i4. 

Loving one another, iii: 15-19. 

Assurance. iii:20, 21. 

Abiding in Him. ii:22-24. 

Character of fellowship. 

In the truth. iv:i-4. 

In the Lord. iv:5, 6. 

In love, iv.7-12. 

Basis of fellowship. 

Faith in Jesus as Christ. v:i. 

Love to God as our Father. v:2. 

Love to Christians as brethren. v:2. 

Keeping His commandments. v:3. 

Overcoming the world. \:\. 

Faith in Jesus as the Son of God. v:5. 

Accepting the threefold witness to the 
work and person of Christ. v:8-i2. 

Resting in the Word of God. v:9-i3. 

Believing prayer. v:i4-iy. [18-21. 

Victory, separation and confidence, vs. 

This is but a brief outline of this most 
important subject, but we need to remem- 
ber that we have been called to have fel- 
lowship with the Father and the Son, and 
to enjoy this there must of necessity be 
separation from the world for we cannot 
have fellowship with both. (II Cor. vi: 
14; vii:i. 

VII. Before Him. (I John ii::S; iii: 
19.) We should be — 

Walking before Him — i. e , in His pres- 
ence. Gen. xvii:i; Ps. lvi:j_3. 



Unblamable in holiness before Him. 
Eph. i:4; I Thess. iii: 13. 

Doing what He tells us, that we may be 
well pleasing or acceptable before Him. 
I Tim. vi:i4. 

This is not being acceptedin Him,\ve are 
accepted in Him as to our acceptance and 
security (Eph. i:6); but being acceptable 
or well pleasing to Him as servants when 
we stand before the judgment seat of 
Christ (II Cor. v:io); that we may not 
be ashamed before Him. (I John ii :28); but 
have confidence before Him. (I John iii: 
19); and receive from Him the "well done" 
of commendation, and the reward for 
service. 

VIII. Loveth Him. (iv:9; v:r.) See 
"God is love." (Page 201.) 

IX. Dwelling in Him. (iv:i3 ) 

The words "dwell," "remain," "con- 
tinue," and "abide," are one and the 
same in the original (meno). The four 
words occur twenty-six times in John's 
Epistles, conveying the truth — God dwell- 
ing in us, and we dwelling in Him. 

God's dwelling place — 

In the high and holy place. Isa. lvii: 

15. 

In the believer. John xiv:i7; Rom. 
viii:9-n; I Cor. iii:i6; I Tim. iv:i4; I 
Johniv:4. 

Ota dwelling place — 

In God. I John iv:i6. 

In Christ. Ps. xci:i. 

Between his shoulders (strength and 
safety . Deut. xxxiii:i2. 

What dwells in Christ. 

The Father. John xiv:io. 

All Fulness. Col. i: rg, 29. 

The evidence of our dwelling in 
Him — 

Feeding upon Christ. John vi:56. 

Christ dwelling in our hearts by faith. 
Eph. iii : T 7 . 

Keeping His commandments. I John 
iii:24. 

Dwelling in love. I John iv:i6. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



20I 



Confessing Jesus as the Son of God. 

I John iv:i5. 

Dwelling in the light. I Tim. vi:i6. 

Walking in the light. I John ii:6. 

Word of Christ dwelling in us. Col. 
iii:i6. 

Not abiding in darkness. John xii:46. 

Abiding in Christ. John xv:4-io. 

Loving one another. I John iv:ii. 

Word of God abiding in us. I John 
ii:i4. 

Doing the will of God. I John ii: 17. 

Continuing in His word. John viii:37- 

Continuing in His love. John xv:g. 

Continuing in the faith. Acts xiv:22; 
Col. 1:23. 

Continuing in the grace of God. Acts 
-xiii:43 

Continuing in the things we have heard 

II Tim. iii:i4. 

Continuing in prayer. Col. iv:2. 

Continuing in the Son. I John ii:24 

Continuing in the Father. I John {v.24. 

His joy remaining in us. John xv:n. 

Walking as He walked. I John ii:6. 

Abiding in the light. I John ii:io. 

X. We shall see Him. (I John iii.2.) 

Looking back in the past we see Him, 
4 'made a little lower than the angels . . . 
suffering unto death" (Heb. 11:q) ; looking 
up we see Him at God's right hand as our 
great High Priest with God (Heb. viii:i), 
and our advocate with the Father; and 
we shall soon see Him face to face (I 
John iii:2); and each other (III John 14). 

XL We shall be like Him. (I John 
iii:2). 

This will not take place until He comes 
for His saints. Then and not till then, 
shall we be like Him — that is, as to our 
glorified bodies; but even now there is to 
be a moral likeness of Himself in our 
life. 

We shall sum the truths in connection 
with the pronoun Him, thus — 

Hearing Him is quickening. 

Knowing Him is assurance. 



In Him is our standing. 
Receiving in or from Him is blessing. 
Born of Him is the new nature. 
Fellowship with Him is communion. 
Loving Him is affection. 
Before Him is service. 
Dwelling in Him is safety. 
Seeing Him is transformation. 
Like Him is sharing His glory. 

GOD is LOVE. 
We have — 

The gift of His love. John iii:i6. 
The manifestation of His love — Christ. 

I John iv:Q. 

The commendation of His love - Gospel . 
Rom. v:8. 

The choice of His love — sinners. 
Rom. v:8. 

1. He loved the world. John iii:i6. 

2. He loved the church. Eph. v:25. 

3. He loved me. Gal ii:20. 

The measure of His love. John xvii:25. 

The chastening of His love. Heb. xii:6. 

What we are to do in relation to His 
love — 

Remember His love. S. of S. i:4- 

Continue and abide in His love. John 
1:5, ix:io. 

Let it constrain us to and in service. 

II Cor. v.14. 

Be rooted and grounded in His love. 
Eph. iii : 1 7. 

Seek to know His love. Eph. iii: 19. 

Abound in His love. Phil. i:g. 

Let it be perfected in us. I John ii: 5 . 

Keep ourselves in His love. Jude 2. 

Love His appearing. II Tim. v:8. 

What He has done — 

Given us His Spirit. 

Given us the (disposition) of love. II 
Tim. i:7. 

Shed abroad His love in our hearts by 
the Holy Spirit. Rom. v:5. 

Result of knowing His love. 

Loving one another. John xiii:34. 

Keeping His word. John xiv:23. 

What we know — 



202 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



"All things work together for good to 
them that love God." Rom. viii:28. 

What God is preparing for us, the 
Holy Spirit revealing it to us now. I 
Cor. ii:9. 

What we are to love — 

God. I John v:2. 

Christ. I Peter i:8. 

One another. John xiii:35. 

All saints. Eph. i:i 5. 

Laborers for their work sake. I Thess. 
v.iy. 

How we are to love — 

Unfeignedly. II Cor. vi:6. 

Sincerely. II Cor. viii:8. 

Without blame. Eph. i:4. 

In the Spirit. Col. i:S. 

In deed and not in word only. I John 
iii:i8. 

What we are not to love — 

The world and all that is in it. 



battlefield; what is meekness, but love at 
school; and what is temperance, but love 
in training. 

OUR SONG FOREVER 

Unto Him that loved us and washed 
(cleared) us from our sins in His blood 

. . . honor praise. Rev. i:36. 

Again and again do we find faith and 
love go together. "What God hath 
joined together let no man put asunder." 
If there is faith in Christ, there will be 
love in Christ. Love is the oil to make 
the wheels of faith go swiftly. (Gal. v:6.) 
And very often we find faith and love has 
another companion, viz., hope. "Now 
abideth faith, hope, love, these three, but 
the greatest of these is love." 

F. E. Marsh. 



I John 
iii : 1 5 . 

What we should do— 

Love our enemies. Matt. v.44. 

Speak the truth in love. Eph. iv:i5. 

Walk in love. Eph. v:2. 

Abound in love. Phil. i:g. 

Put on love. I Thess. v:8. 

Follow after love. I Tim. vi:ii. 

Provoke one another to love and good 
works. Heb. x:24. 

Reason of our love to Him — 

Because He first loved us. I John iv 
19. 

Because we are born of God. I John 
iv:7- 

OUR POWER FOR LOVING. 

The Holy Spirit, who will bring forth 
in our life the fruit of Himself, which is 
love, yea, the fruit of the Spirit, may be 
summed up in one word, viz., love; for 
as it often has been said — what is joy, 
but love exulting; what is peace, but 
love in repose; what is suffering, but 
love untiring; what is gentleness, but love 
in society; what is goodness, but love in 
action; what is faith, but love in the 



THE NAMES GIVEN TO CHRIST 
IN JOHN'S EPISTLES. 

I.— WORD OF LIFE. 

This title seems to bring before us 
Christ the Eternal One, manifested to us. 
on the ground of His death and resur- 
rection by the Word and Spirit of God, 
and to whom we are united by the power 
of the Holy Spirit. The manifestation of 
His life to us when we were born again. 
i:2. 

Who is our life? -the Son of God. 

V<20. 

The character of our life — "eternal.'* 
i:2. 

The gift of the life by the Father. v:n. 

The position He has brought us into- 
— "out of death unto life." iii:i4. 

The knowledge of it through the Word 
of God. v.i 3. 

Where the life is — in Christ, v.n. 

Where the life is — in us. v:i2. 

Who have the life— believers. v:i2. 

Who have not life — unbelievers. v:i2. 

Future manifestation of it. ii:25; Col. 
iii:4. 

One has said in speaking of eternal 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



203 



life, "God is its source; a risen Christ 
its channel; the Holy Spirit its power; 
heaven its sphere; eternity its duration; 
and we might add, glory its manifesta- 
tion." 

Remember, Christ is your life. He is 
the Prince of Life, be ruled by Him. 

He is the Path of Life, walk in Him. 

He is the Light of Life, look to Him. 

He is the Fountain of Life, drink of 
Him. 

He is the Bread of Life, feed upon 
Him. 

He is the Tree of Life; abide in Him. 

He is the Word of Life; rest in Him. 
n. — ADVOCATE. 

As sinners we needed a Mediator, i. e., 
one to meet the righteous claims of God, 
and thus meet our need. As children of 
God we need an advocate with the 
Father. God has made no provision for 
us to sin, but if we do sin there is pro- 
vision made — "We have an advocate with 
the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." 
The advocacy of Christ is easily under- 
stood if we remember that sin is no 
longer a judicial question, but a family 
one, and if we remember also that Satan 
is the accuser of the brethren, he may 
question our right to be forgiven when 
we fall, but Christ meets him by remind- 
ing Him that He is the One who has 
undertaken our cause, and He Himself, 
His work is our right to be forgiven. 

III. — PROPITIATION OR MERCY SEAT. 

Chap. ii:2. 

The words mercy seat and atonement 
come from a root word which means to 
cover; it is a blessed fact, that not only 
are our sins forgiven, but we are com- 
pletely covered by Him who is our mercy 
seat. As illustrating Him who is our 
mercy seat, let us look at the mercy seat 
in the tabernacle. 

It was an ail gold mercy seat. 

Reminding us that God, and God alone 
is the source and dispenser of mercy, and 



Christ alone is the channel of mercy, and 
the Holy Spirit the only one that reveals 
this fact to us. 

It was a blood-sprinkled mercy seat. 

On the day of atonement the blood was 
sprinkled once on and seven times before 
the mercy seat. This reminds us of what 
Christ has done, namely perfectly met the 
claims of God, and brought us into a per- 
fect standing before God. 

It was a firmly secured mercy seat. 

There was a border or crown round 
about it to keep it in its place; to remove 
the mercy seat was death (see I Sam. vi: 
19); because the ministration of death 
(the law) was in the ark, but the border 
would keep the mercy seat on the ark, 
telling us that not only is Christ our 
mercy seat, but the one who maintains his 
position as such before God for us, be- 
cause of what He is in Himself — the 
"righteousness of God." Thus we see in 
the mercy seat, mercy, and in the border, 
righteousness, or 'mercy and truth met 
together, righteousness and peace kissing 
each other." 

IV.— HOLY ONE. 

Chap. ii:io. 

In John's Gospel we have the promise 
of the Holy One (John xiv:26); in the 
Epistle the possession of Him who was 
promised— the Holy Spirit indwelling the 
believer on the ground of the accom- 
plished work of Christ, because of what 
He is, what He has done, and where He 
is. 

v. — CHRIST. 

Chap. ii:22. 

The meaning of the name Christ is the 
anointed or sent One; no less than forty 
times in John's Gospel does He say that 
the "Father sent Him;" but he was not 
only sent from God, he was anointed with 
the Holy Spirit, the seal that He was the 
sent One, and accepted of the Father as 
the Son of Man — the man of men. lie 
did everything in and by the power of the 
Holy Spirit. 



204 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



He was — 

Born of the Spirit. Luke i:35. 

Anointed with the Spirit. Luke iii:22. 

Led by the Spirit. Luke iv:i. 

Acted in the power of the Spirit. Luke 
iv:i4. 

Preached by the Spirit. Luke iv:i8. 

Offered Himself to God through the 
Spirit. Heb. ix:i4. 

Rose again by the Spirit's power. I 
Pet. iii:i8. 

Again, the same Christ is in opposition 
to Antichrist — both the system and person 
— in John's Epistle. 

Antichrist comes in His own name. 
John v:43. 

Christ came in His Father s name. 
John v:43. 

Antichrist's object is to glorify him- 
self. Dan. 9:27. 

Christ came to and did glorify the 
Father. John xvii:4. 

Antichrist deceives. Dan. vi:2i-23. 

Christ enlightens. II Cor. iv:6. 

Antichrist is a liar. I John ii:22. 

Christ the truth. I John v:2G. 

VI. — SON OF GOD. 

Chap. iii:8 

Twenty-four times in this Epistle is He 
said to be the Son of God. [do? 

What did God send His Son to be and 

That we might live. I John iv:g. 

To be a Saviour. I John iv:i4. 

To be a Propitiation. I John iv:io. 

To undo the works of the Devil. 
I John iii:8. 

The result of believing in Him as the 
Son of God. 

We have eternal life. I John v:i2. 

We know it. I John v: 13. 

We have the witness. I John v:io. 

We are in Him. I John v:20. 

We know He has come. I John v:2c. 

God dwelleth in us. I John iv:i5. 

We have the Father and Son. II John 9. 

The proof that we believe on Hi?n as the 
Son of God. 



Believe on His name. I John ii:23; 
v:i3. 

Acknowledge Him as such. I John 
ii:2 3 . 

Confess Him as the Son of God. I 
John iv:i5. 

Have fellowship with Him. I John i:3. 

Continue in Him. I John ir.24. 

That we know His blood cleanseth 
from all sin. I John i:7. 

Overcoming the world. I John v:5. 
F. E. M. 

HIS COMING AGAIN. 

1. In person. John xiv:i-3. I Thess. 
iv:i6. 

2. What for. John xiv:3. To receive 
you unto myself. 

The living and dead saints. I Cor. xv: 
51, 52; I Thess. iv:i5-i7. L xx: 5> 6. 

a. This is the first resurrection. Rev. 

b. Resurrection of the just. Luke 
xiv:i4. 

c. Resurrection from among the dead 
Phil. iii:ii. 

Called. The day of Redemption. Eph. 
iv:3o; i : 13, 14; Rom viii: 23. 

3. The attitude. Groaning. Rom. viii:23. 
Looking. Titus ii : 1 3 ; Heb. ix:28. 

Phil. iii:i9, 21. 

Waiting. I Thess. i:io; II Thess. iii: 
5; I Cor. i:7, 8. 

Watching. Mark xiii 135: Luke xir.37; 
I Thess. v:2, 6. 

Loving. II Tim. iv:8; I Pet. v:.+. 

4. Practical aspect. Separation. I John 
iii:2, 3. Phil. iii:20. 

Self-denial. Col. iii: 4, 5. 

Occupation. Luke xix:H-i3. 

Holiness. II Pet. iii:i 1-14. 

Time of rejoicing. I Pet. 1:7; I Thess. 
ii: 19. 

In glory. Col. iii:4; Rom. viii: 18. 

Like Him. I Johniii:2; Ps. xvii:i5. 

When shall these things be. Mark xiii: 
32-37; II Pet. iii: 10; Rev. xvi:is; Matt. 
xxiv:27, 37, 38; Luke xvii:26, 29; I 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINXS. 



205 



Thess. v:i-3; Matt, xxiv: u; Rev. xxii:7, 
12, 20. 

What it means to the unsaved. Jude 
14, 15; Rev. i:;; xix:ii-i4; vii:l5«l7; 
xx.n-15; John v.27; Acts xvii:3i; x.42; 
II Thess. i:7, 8, 9; Isa. xxvi:2i; lxiii 13-6; 
Jer. v:3i. 



THE TWO ADVENTS OF CHRIST. 

"For as often as ye eat this bread, and 
drink this cup, ye do show forth the 
Lord's death till he come." I Cor. xi:26 

This text and others enables us in par t 
to see what Christ began at his first com- 
ing, and what he will finish at his second 
coming. Let us take a look back and see 
what Jesus suffered and did for us; and 
then, as we look forward we will see what 
Christ is coming for. We will take four 
quartette looks. 

I. What He suffered in beating our 
sin. 

1. As we look back we see redemption 
begun. Matt. xx:2S; Gal. iii : 13. When 
we look forward we see redemption fin- 
ished. Luke xxi:27, 28; Rom. viii:23; 
Phil i:6. 

2. He appears with our sin. Matt. 
xxvi:2S; I Pet. 11:^4. He appears with- 
out sin, or having nothing to do with sin, 
to them that look for Him. Heb. ix:28, 

3. He appears in weakness. Ps. xxii: 
6; Mark xv:ii, 5. When he comes he 
will appear in power and great glory. 
Matt. xxiv:30; xxvi:64. 

4. He is laid hold on by death. John 
xix:33. When he comes it is to conquer 
and put an end to death forever. I Cor. 
xv:-326; Rev. xx:i4; xxi:4; Heb. ii : 14 

15- 

II. What He suffered from friends and 
enemies. 

1. Friends forsake Him. Zee. xiii 17 ; 
Mark xiv:50. They gather together unto 
Him. II Thess. i:io; ii:i. 

2. Surrounded with enemies. Ps. xxii: 
16; Matt. xxvii,36. When He comes He 



will be surrounded with myriads of 
friends. Zee. xiv:5; I Thess. iii:' 3; 
Jude xiv:i5. 

3. Enemies mocked and scoffed at him. 
Ps. xxii:i3; Luke xxiii:35-37. When He 
comes they will tremble with fear. Rev. 
vi:i4-i7; Luke xxiii:3o. 

4. As we look back Satan is bruising 
Christ. Gen. iii : 1 5 ; Isa. liii:6. Christ 
comes to bruise Satan, Rom. xvi:2o; 
Rev. xx : 1-3. 

III. What He suffered in his person, 
morally and physically. 

1. As we look back we see Him filled 
and covered with darkness. Matt, xxvi: 
36-44; read Ps. lxxxviii. When he comes 
he will be filled and covered with unap- 
proachable light. I Tim. vr.14-16; Acts 
xxvi:i3: Rev. xxi:23. 

2. We see Him covered with shame. 
Matt. xxvii 127-3 1. He comes covered 
with glory. Matt. xxiv:3o; xxv:3i. 

3. In derision crowned and hailed king 
of the Jews. Matt, xxvii.29. He will 
be hailed when He comes, amid shouts of 
angels and saints, as King of kings. I 
Tim. vi:i4, 15; Rev. xi:i5; xix:i6. 

4. As He hung upon the cross the 
world was veiled in darkness. Lukexxiii: 
44. When He comes, from east to west 
will be lit up by His glorious light. Matt. 
xxiv:27. 

IV. What He suffered from God, man 
and Satan. 

1. At the cross God forsakes Him be- 
cause He has to do with sin. Mark xv: 
34. At His second coming God is with 
Him because he has nothing to do with 
sin. Titus ii : 1 3 ; Heb. ix:28; I Thess. 
iv:i4. 

2. As we look back we see the grave is 
receiving, and still receiving our dead. 
Isa. liii:g; John xix:3g-42. But when He 
comes the grave will give up our dead for- 
ever. John v:28, 29; I Thess. iv:i5, 16. 

3. Satan's hour and the power of dark- 
ness. Luke xxii:53. But when He 



2o6 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



comes it will be His hour, yea, His ever- 
lasting day. Daniel vii:i3, 14; Rev. xxii: 
4, 5 

4. As we look back the world is judg- 
ing Christ. Luke xxiiin-26; John xviii: 
28-31. As we look forward we see Him 
coming to judge the world. Ps. 1:3-6; 
Acts xvii:3o. 

This is what faith sees as it looks 
back; and this is what hope expects as 
it looks forward. Faith sees a bruised, 
crucified, dead, buried and risen Christ. 
Hope expects to see a glorified Christ. 

Was His first advent literal and per- 
sonal, as He began redemption, bore our 
sin, appeared in weakness, was laid hold 
on by death? You say, yes. Well, then, 
He will appear in person as He completes 
redemption, puts an end to sin, is seen in 
power when He comes to cast death into 
the lake of fire. (Rev. xx:i4.) 

Was this first advent literal and per- 
sonal when friends forsook Him, when 
enemies surrounded and mocked Him, 
and Satan bruised Him? Well, then He 
will appear personal by-and-by when 
friends gather and surround Him, when 
foes tremble, and Satan is bruised and cast 
into the bottomless pit and lake of fire, to 
be tormented forever and ever. Rev xx: 
1-10. 

Was His first advent literal and per- 
sonal when filled and covered with dark- 
ness, when shame was heaped upon Him, 
and He was mocked in derision as King of 
the Jews; when nature veiled her face at 
such treatment of her Creator? He surely 
will appear in person when covered with 
light and glory as King of kings at His 
second coming, as He declares himself 
and then nature will be His witness, as it 
was at His first coming. Num. xiv:2i; 
Ps. lxxii.ig. 

Was His first coming personal, when 
God forsook Him, the grave received 
Him, and the world judged Him? He 
will surely come in person when God 



comes with Him, for the dead in the 
graves to hear Him, to judge the world 
and reign on David's throne forever. 
Matt. xxv:3i-46; Luke 1:32. 

This is the way I have studied Christ's 
personal coming from the Bible, to satisfy 
my own mind. «May God bless it to oth- 
ers, is my prayer. 

John Currie. 



"QUICKLY." 

Four times does the startling word 
"Quickly" ring out from the Book of 
Revelation upon the dark centuries of pro- 
bationary time, as if to move us to dili- 
gence in duty, vigilance in danger, pa- 
tience under seeming delay, and to show 
the great love of the Bridegroom's heart— 
which will not permit him to defer the 
holy nuptials beyond what is absolutely 
necessary. He is coming as expeditiously 
as possible. Listen to his voice: 

"Behold, I come quickly; hold that 
fast which thou hast, that no man take 
thy crown." Rev. Hi: n. 

"Behold, I come quickly; blessed is he 
that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy 
of this book." Rev. xxii:7. 

"Behold, I come quickly; and my re- 
ward is with me, to give to every man ac- 
cording as his work shall be." Rev. xxii: 
12. 

' He that testifieth these things saith, 
Surely I come quickly." Rev. xxii: 20. 
Let not the dust of worldliness clog your 
ears, nor the din of business prevent you 
from daily hearing that earnest arousing 
word "Quickly." 

Rev. J. M. Orrock. 



THAT BLESSED HOPE. 

A heartfelt experience of the glorious 
truth of the Second Advent of our Lord 
will result in: 

A biding in Christ. I John ii : 28. 

Bear persecution. I Peter iv:i2, 13. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



207 



C omfort the sorrowing. I Thess. iv: 
18. 

D eny self. Col. iii.3-5. 

Endure temptation. I Peter i:6, 7. 

Faithfulness. I Tim. vi:i4. 

Godliness. II Peter iii: 10, 11. 

Holiness. I Thess. v:22, 23. 

Implicit trust in God's Word. I 
Thess. iv:i4, 15. 

J oy fulness. I Peter i:S. 

K eep in mind our heavenly citizen- 
ship. Phil. iii:20. 

L onging after welfare of others. I 
Cor. i:4,7. 

Moderation. Phil. iv:5. 

N ot to be ashamed of Him. Mark 
viii:38. 

Obedience. I Tim. vi:i3, 14. 

P urity. I John iii:2, 3. 

Quietness. James v:7, 8. 

R eadiness. Matt. xxiv:44. 

Separation. Rev. xvi:i5. 

T estimony. Luke ix:26. 

Unity and brotherly love. I Thess. 
iii: 12, 13. 

Value the Word of God II Pet. i:ig. 

W atchfulness. Matt. xxvi:4i 

Xpectation. Titus ii: 13. 

Yearning for that day. Rev. xxii:20. 

Zeal. II Tim. iv:i, 5. 

In other words, the beginning and end 
— the Alpha and Omega— the A and Z 
will be 

Abiding in CHRIST 



Z eal in cause of 



Alf. Sandham. 



JUDGMENT. 

The idea, commonly entertained, that 
there is but one general Judgment in the 
future, is quite erroneous. The Judg- 
ments' of God are always associated with 
His dispensational dealings; and as these 
vary exceedingly, it follows that there 
should be separate judgments suited to 
the nature of the testimony God is pleased 
to give at any epoch of the world's his- 



tory. So far as we have been able to 
gather the mind of the Lord, from the 
revelation of His will in the Sacred 
Scriptures, the following brief summary 
ncludes all the various judgments yet 
future:* — 

I. The Judgment Seat of Christ. I 
Cor. iii: 13-15 ; II Cor. v:io. 

II. The Destruction of Antichrist, the 
False Prophet, and those who take the 
mark of the Beast. Rev. xix: 17-21; II 
Thess. i:7-io; II Thess. ii:8-io. 

III. A Remnant of Israel judged and 
purged. Mai. iii: 1-4; Matt, xxv: 14-30. 

IV. The Judgment of Living Nations 
by Christ as King of Jerusalem. Matt. 
xxv:30-46; Zech. xiv:i6-:i; Rev. XXL24. 

V. Satan cast into Bottomless Pit dur- 
ing the Millennium. Rev. xx:i, 2. 

VI. Gog and Magog, headed by Satan, 
after Millennium destroyed by fire. Rev. 
xx:8, 9. 

VII. The Great White Throne. Rev. 
xx:n-i5; Rom. ii.3-16; John v:28, 29. 

"The Secret things belong unto the 
Lord our God," but that which He has 
revealed is meant by Him to be under- 
stood bv us. 

F. A. B. 



THE LAW. 

WHAT THE LAW CANNOT DO. 

It cannot show mercy to the disobed- 
ient. Heb. x:28. 

It has no forgiveness, but only punish 
ment f ->r transgressors. Deut. xxvii:26; 
Heb. ii:2. 

No justification is possible under it. 
Acts xiii:39; Rom iii:20, 28; Gal. ii:i6; 
iii: 1 1. 

There is no gift of the Spit it under it. 
Gal. iii:2, 5. 

It cannot give life. Gal. iii:2i. 



*These do not include the judgments of God 
connected with the Vials of Wrath, Babylon, 
etc., between the Rapture of the Church and 
Christ's appearing- on earth. 



208 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



It cannot impart strength or ability for 
obedience. Rom. v:6; viir.3. 

Righteousness cannot come by it. Rom. 
ix:32; Gal. ii:2i; iii : 2 r . 

There can be no inheritance as of sons 
under it. R.om. iv:i4; Gal. iii: 18. 

There can be no attainment of the 
heavenly Rest by it. Moses failed to 
bring Israel in — Joshua Uype of Christ) 
alone accomplished it. Num. xx:i2; 
Josh. i:i-3. 

Note. — In all these respects it is the 
opposite of the Gospel — all that we cannot 
there have by the law, believers have in 
Christ. Grace and truth came by Him — 
John i- 1 7 — truth to show us all that God 
has provided — grace to bring us practi- 
cally into the possession and enjoyment of 
all. 

WHAT THE LAW DOES DO. 

It brings tinder a curse. Gal. iii: 10; 
Deut. xxvii:26. 

It brings condemnation to all under it, 
being a "ministry of condemnation." II 
Cor. iii:g. 

It brings death to all under it, being a 
"ministration of death." II Cor. iii : 7 ; 
Rom. vii:io, 11. 

It strikes terror to the hearer. Heb. 
xii: 1 9, 20; Ex. xx:t8, 19. 

Note. — The Gospel is the reverse, and 
brings to us blessing, justification, life, 
joy and peace. 

WHAT THE LAW IS. 

It is not a transcript of God's mind and 
character, but a rule of duty and obliga- 
tion — a declaration of what we ought to 
be and do, negatively and positively, to- 
ward God and toward man. As such, it 
is a test by which to try life, character 
and conduct, and a check to transgression. 
Ex. xx:i-i7. 

It is holy, and just, and good. Rom. 
vii:i2. 

It is our schoolmaster unto Christ — Gal. 
iii:24 — that is, the one through whose 



schooling we discover our need of Christ, 
and are led unto Him. 

It is the strength of sin. I Cor. xv.56. 
The wilful and rebellious heart of man is 
prompted to disobedience by the prohibi- 
tion — the evil propensity and current of 
the natural heart are manifested and 
gather force by the check it puts upon 
them— as in the Apostles' case, when the 
commandment comes, sin revives, sin 
taking occasion by the commandment 
works in us all manner of coveting. See 
Rom. vii:S. Thus the law is no remedy 
for sin, but in experience is found to be 
for death, v. 10. 

FOR WHOM WAS THE LAW MADE? 

Not fo7 the righteous, for if naturally 
disposed to what is right and good, we 
should not need a command to do it. It 
is for the lawless and disobedient, etc. I 
Tim. i:g, 10. It is given, therefore, be- 
cause we are prone to disobedience. 

WHAT COMES BY THE LAW? 

The knowledge and conviction of sin. 
Mark, not the sins only, but of sin — the 
root and source of transgression, the evil 
nature within us. Rom. iii :2o; vii:7~9. 

WHY WAS IT BROUGHT IN ? 

To prove man — Ex. xx:20 — that is, to 
put him to the proof by a test and mani- 
fest his true nature and character, as a. 
plummet-line is applied to a building to 
test its uprightness, or a chemical test to a 
metal to show its nature. 

It was added because of transgression. 
Gal. iii: 19. Transgression existed before, 
but required exposure through man's, 
ignorance, insensibility, self-righteous- 
ness and fancied goodness and ability. 

It entered that the offence might abound. 
Rom. v:20. Not to produce sin, but to 
show it abounding. The dark back- 
ground of man's abounding sin shows the 
more brightly God's abounding grace. 

Its intention is to shut us up to faith, 
Gal. iii:22, 23— to produce despair of alt 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



209 



other remedy, and to lead us to Christ, 
who is our only hope. Gal. i i i : 2 4. . 

WHEN WAS IT BROUGHT IN? 

It was introduced after God had fully 
proved or tested Israel by grace. Ex. xvi: 
4. The history of Israel from Egypt to 
Sinai was one of marvelous grace. 

It was after the unconditional promises 
made to Abraham, which Israel's disobed- 
ience under the law does not therefore an. 
nul. Gal. iii:ij; Rom. xi:29- 

It was befoie Christ and until the seed 
(that is the seed which is Christ, who was 
in view in the promise to Abraham) — 
should come — Gal. iii:ig — so that man 
having been fully tested and proved, in 
due time Christ died for the ungodly. 
Rom. y:6. 

WHY THE LAW FAILS OF BENEFIT TO US. 

Because ive are carnal and sinful, while 
the Law is spiritual and holy. We are 
sold under sin and captive to it. while the 
Law can only be obeyed by the free. 
Rom. vii: 14. 

Because of the law of sin in our mem- 
bers, Rom. vii:23, and the insubjection of 
the carnal or natural mind. Rom. viii:7. 
The Law enjoins love while the carnal 
mind is enmity against God. 

It is therefore " iveak through the flesh" 
or in consequence of our fallen, corrupt 
and weak nature. Rom. vii:2i; viii:3. 

THE LAW IS NOT DEAD. 

Christ came not to destroy but to fulfil 
it. Matt, v.i 7, iS. 

It is established by the gospel. Ron 
111:31. 

Eph. vi:i-3, is an example showing 
how rightly it may still be used. 

Christ perfectly fulfilled it, and we 
ought to walk even as He walked. I 
John ii:6. 

The sum of the Law, as interpreted by 
Christ, is love to God and our neighbor. 



Matt. xxii:36-4o; vii:i2; I Tim. i:5. 
These cannot cease to be our duty, though 
the believer does not obey for life, but 
from life. 

WHAT IS THE RELIEVER'S RELATION TO 
THE LAW ? 

He is, as to position, relationship and 
privilege, like Isaac, who was a ' 'child of 
t>7vmise" and an heir before the Law came. 
Gal iv:28. 

Christ is the end of the Law for right- 
eousness to him. Rom. x:4. He has in 
Christ and by faith the righteousness 
which is the end or aim the Law has in 
view or seeks. 

He is not under it ^as a covenant of 
works), but under gi'ace, which gives victory 
over sin, Rom. vi:i4. He is led of the 
Spirit, Gal. v:i8, and under law to Christ. 
I Cor. ix:2i; Gal. vi:2. 

He has been made dead to it through the 
body of Christ; he has died to it through 
the death of Christ; is thus released from 
it and married to Christ, that he may 
bring forth fruit unto God, and serve in 
the newness of the spirit, and not in the 
oldness of the letter. Rom. vii:4-6, R. 
V. 

The Law is put in his mind and written 
on his heart, Heb. viii:io; x:i6 — thus he 
becomes an open, living epistle of Christ, 
known and read of all men. II Cor. iii:3. 

HOW MAY THE BELIEVER PRACTICALLY 

FULFIL THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 

THE LAW ? 

By obtaining freedom through the 
Spirit from the law of sin and death. 
Rom. viii:2. 

By walking not after the flesh, but after 
the Spirit, Rom. viii:4; and living and 
walking in, or rather by the Spirit — that 
is, by His teaching, prompting and en- 
abling grace. Gal. v:i6, 22-25. 

D. Webley. 



2IO 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



THE SUFFERINGS AND THE 
GLORY. 

I Peter i : 1 1 . 

The great theme of the gospel is Pre- 
emption, and the Lord Jesus Christ 
presents the central figure and actor in 
this work. 

This theme presents strange contrasts 
of light and shade, joy and sorrow, glory 
and gloom. 

The Cross and Throne are the focal 
points in which all lines of Gospel truths 
center. We stand between these two 
points, and at the Lord's table which 
spans them, our faith in a Saviour who 
has put away sin is confirmed, and our 
hope in a coming Saviour is revived. 

The old prophets standing back of both 
these grand events, often spoke of them 
together and did not easily discern the 
perspective and the meaning of their own 
prophesies. 

Seeking diligently for light in their 
confusions, it was told them that they 
were ministering the truth to saints of the 
latter day. Isa. liii:3, 12; I Pet. i:io-i2. 

The Old Testament saints dwelt chiefly 
on Christ's coming in glory, while now 
the church inclines to dwell chiefly on His 
suffering advent. In the old cathedrals 
of Europe we meet the crucifix every- 
where, and we find a dead church wor- 
shiping a dead Christ; but thank God, the 
piety of Protestants is receiving more and 
more illumination from the glory of a 
coming Christ. 

Standing between the cross and the 
throne let us look backward to the suffer 
Ings, and forward to the glory. 

1. Christ has once appeared in the sac 
rifice of a sin-bearer, but He will come 
again without a sin-offering unto salva- 
tion. Heb. ix:28; I Cor. xv:i; Gal. iii 
13; I Pet. ii:24. 

2, He came then in weakness and 
humiliation. He will come again in power 
and glory. Psa. xxii:6; Luke ix:5S; 
Matt. xxiv:3o; Matt. xxvi:6_j.. 



3. He surrendered them to suffering 
and death like a helpless and hopeless 
victim, but he will come again as a mighty 
conqueror, triumphant over all evils and 
foes. Matt. xvi:2i; Mark xv:37; I Cor. 
xv:25, 26; Heb. ii: 14, 15. 

4. In His suffering mission His friends 
forsook Him. In His glorious advent 
they will all be gathered to Him. Zech. 
xiii:7; Mark xiv:50; I Thess. iv:;7; II 
Thess. i:io. 

5. When He came before, His enemies 
mocked Him and triumphed over Him. 
When He comes again they will be ap- 
palled with fear, and cry for. the rocks 
and mountains to fall upon them. Psa. 
xxii:i3; Luke xxiii:35-37; Luke xxiii 130; 
Rev. vi: 14-17.' 

6. At His first advent Satan bruised 
Christ's heel, but at His second advent 
He will bruise Satan's head. Gen. hi: 15; 
Isa. liii: 5 ; Dan. ii:34, 35; Rom. xvi::o. 

7. He was once hung upon a cross and 
crowned with shame. He shall yet be 
seated on the throne and crowned with 
glory. Matt. xxvii:29; Luke xxiii:33; 
Dan. vii:i3; Rev. xix:i6. 

8. In His sufferings the heavens and 
earth were shrouded with sackcloth dark- 
ness. In His glory the heavens and earth 
shall blaze with splendor. Matt. xxvii:45; 
Luke xxiii:44. 

9. Then it was "Satan's hour and the 
power of darkness." Next it will be 
"Christ's hour and the power of light." 
Luke xxii:53; Dan. vii:i3, 14. 

10. When Christ came first, the world 
judged and condemned Him. When He 
comes again He will judge and condemn 
the world. Luke xxiii: .-26; Actsxvii:3i. 

What wonderful contrasts of suffering 
and glory. Let us willingly share His suf- 
fering now and we shall share His glory 
then. These sufferings are a sacramental 
cup preceding the new wine of the king- 
dom. The cross is a prelude to the 
crown. E. P. Marvin. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



21 i 



WHOSE I AM, AND WHOM I 
SERVE. 

1. Whose I am. 

(a). Christ's by His choice. Eph. i:4- 
■6; John xv:i6. 

(b). Christ's by His purchase. I Cor. 
viiig, 20. 

(c). Christ's as gift of the Eather. 
John xvii:2, 6, 9, 1 1, etc. 

(d). Christ's by our own choice. Rom. 
vi:i6; Josh. xxiv:i5. 

(e). Christ's because of His grace and 
not on account of any worthiness on our 
part. Titus ill : S ; II Tim. i:g. 

(f). Christ's both in life and death. 
Rom. xiv:8. 

2. Whom I serve. 

(a). Serve as servants. Matt. x:24, 25. 

(b). Serve as friends- John xv: 15-20. 

(c). Serve as children. John xiii:33~ 
35; xx:2i. 

(d). Serve as representatives. II Cor. 
v:20. 

(e). Serve as bearers of the joyful mes- 
sage. Markxvi:i5; Acts viii:i, 4. 

Notice: Who were scattered abroad, 
etc. All, except the Apostles. 

(f). Serve in the particular capacity 
•God places us in. Col. iii:22-24. 

Important. II Tim. ii:20, 21. 

Promise. John xii:26. 

Wages. Matt. xxv:2i. 

"Occupy till I come." 

W. A. B. 



WHITED SEPULCHERS. 

A wolf with a woolen jacket. Matt. 
vii:i5. 

A thief in a long coat and white choker. 
Rom: ii:2l. 

A liar quoting the Bible. Matt. iv;6. 

" Licensed to sell " communicants. 
Hab. ii : 1 5. 

Certain "Real estate agents." Matt. 
xxiii:i4. 

W. A. B. 



"HE IS PRECIOUS." 

I Peter ii : 7. 
A Precious Stone, 

Foundation strong and sure, 

I Pet. ii:4. 
The Precious Blood, 

Redemption makes secure. I Pet. i: 1 q. 
A Precious Promise 

Sets the soul at rest Ii Pet. i:4. 

By Precious Faith, 

Enshrined in the breast. II Pet. i:i. 
His Precious Thoughts 

Are evermore of peace. Ps. cxxxix:i7. 
And Precious Fruit. Deut. xxxiii:i4. 

His Precious seed's increase. 

Ps. cxxvi:6. 
His Precious Oil 

Is poured upon the head. Ps. cxxxiii:2. 
And Precious Love 

Within the heart is shed. Rom. v. 5. 
But among all the precious things 

Thine eye can see, Job. xxviii:io. 

None is so precious as THYSELF to 
me ! I Pet. ii:7. 

Irene H. Barnes. 



WOMAN'S WORK. 

1. The position in which woman was 
placed by God. Gen. i:27, 28. 

2. The position in which woman was 
placed in consequence of sin. Gen. iii: 
15. 16. 

Under "law" there was no place for 
woman in the priestly service; this con- 
tinued until Jew and Greek, bond and 
free, male and female, became one in 
Christ. Gal. iii:28; I Pet. ii:Q. 

Speaking of the entry of sin, God said 
to Satan, Thou hast done this. Gen. iii: 
14. Christ came to destroy the works of 
the devil. I John iii:8. To redeem us 
from the curse of the law. Gal. iii; [3. 

But although woman was excluded 
from the temple and tabernacle service, 
God kept himself free to use her as a 
leader (Miriam), as a judge (Deborah), as 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



prophetesses and teachers (Hannah, Hul- 
dah, Noahiah and Anna); this was under 
1 the law.'" 

3. The position in which woman is 
placed under grace. 

At the command of Christ, the men 
and women pray together for the Holy 
Spirit. Acts i: 14. 

The Holy Spirit fills both men and 
women, and the cloven tongues like as of 
fire rest upon them. They speak as the 
Spirit gives them utterance. Acts ii:i-6. 

God had previously foretold that this 
would occur, viz. : That He would pour 
out His Spirit, and that men and women 
would prophecy. Acts ii: 16-18. 

Men and women went everywhere 
preaching the Word. Acts viii:4. 

Men and women who will do and teach 
the commands of Christ, will be great in 
the Kingdom of Heaven. Matt. v:ig. 

Rule for Home Life of married women. 
I Tim. ii:i 1-1 5. 

The teaching of I Cor. xiv:34, does 
not exclude a Deborah nor an Anna from 
working now, for the apostle's order runs 
"as also saith the law," and these women 
wrought under and in harmony with the 
law. 

This Epistle to the Corinthians was 
written to both men and women. I Cor 
\2. 

Notice the following five points: 

1. A command to men and women. I 
Cor. xiv.i. 

2. A rule for men to observe when pray 
ing and prophecying. I Cor. xi:4, 7. 

3. A rule for women to observe when 
praying and prophecying. I Cor. xiv:5, 6 

4. A direction for men and women. I 
Cor. xiv:34, 35. 

5. An injunction to married women. 
Cor. xiv:34, 35. 

In I Cor. xiv:34. the apostle says that 
something must not be done, and in the 
35th verse he shows that there is no need 
for something being done because the 



purpose can be accomplished in a better 
way- 

We learn from the last named verses 
that the wife is not to ask questions nor 
allow herself to indulge in such speaking 
as could be prevented by her taking the 
trouble to ask her husband at home. 

A woman is commanded to tell out be- 
fore a large audience what Christ had 
done for her. Luke viii:43-48. 

Women are commanded to tell of the 
resurrection. Matt. xxviii;g, 10. 

Four female preachers. Acts xxi:g. 

Ps. Ixviii:i2 (R. V.) Go ye into all the 
world and preach the gospel to every 
creature. Mark xvi:i5. 

J. A. A. 



THE INNOCENCE OF JESUS. 

1. According to Judas. Matt. xxvii:4» 

2. According to Pilate's wife. Matt, 
xxvii.ig. 

3. According to Pilate. Matt, xxvii 124. 

4. According to centurion, etc. Matt. 
xxvir.54. 

5. According to the thief. Lukexxiii:43. 
In Him was no sin. I John iii : 5. 
He knew no sin. II Cor. v:2i. 

He did no sin. I Pet. ii:22. 
He was without sin. Heb. iv:i5. 
Yet He His own self bare our sins. I 
Pet. ii.24. Anon. 



EVERY MORNING. 
Manna given. Exod. xvi:2i. 
New Mercies. Lam. iii;23_ 
God visits. Job vii:i8. 
God chastens. Ps. Ixxiii:i4. 
Our arm. Isaiah xxxiii:2. 
Judgments seen. Zeph. iii:5. 
Worship. Ex. xxx:7. 
Praise. I Chr. xxiii:30. 
Sacrifice. II Chr. xiii:ii. 
Service. I Chr. ix:27. 
Free offering. Ex. xxxvr.3. 
Preparation. Ezek. xlvi:i3-i5. 



Anon. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS 
SCRIPTURAL CLEANINGS. 



213 



At the giving of the law 3,000 slain. 
Ex. xxxii:2S. 

At the first preaching of the gospel 
3,000 saved. Acts ii.4r. 



First question in the Old Testament. 
God's question. Where art thou? Gen. 
iii:Q. 

First question in the New Testament. 
Man's question, Where is He? Matt. ii:2. 



.The first man— Adam. I Cor. xv:45. 
The second man — the Lord from 
heaven. I Cor. xv:47. 

The perfect man. Eph. iv:i3. 

Genesis teaches truth by persons. 
Exodus teaches truth by actions. 
Leviticus teaches truth bv things. 



The Father against the world. I John 

ii:i5-i7- 

The Son against the devil. I John iii:8. 
The Spirit against the flesh. Gal. v. 16. 

"His own blood" in connection with 
our redemption. Heb. ix:i2. 
Our sanctification. Heb. xiii:i2. 
Our washing (loosing R. V.) Rev. i:5. 
Our purchase. Acts xx:28. 



Past Christ hath appeared to put 
away sin. Heb ix:26. 

Present. Christ appears in God's pres- 
ence for us. Heb. ix:24. 

Future. Christ will appear without 
sin, etc. Heb. ix:28. 



Propitiation. For Christ also hath once 
suffered for s : ns. I Pet. iii: 18. 

Substitution. The just for the unjust. 
I Pet. iii: 1 8. 

Reconciliation. That he might bring 
us to God. I Pet. iii.iS. 



Three sacrifices man can now offer to 
God. 

1. His person. Rom. xii:i. 

2. His property Phil. iv:i8. 

3. His praises. Heb xiii: r 5. 



Christians are-made free from the con- 
demning power of the law. Rom. vii:6. 

Controlling power of sin. Rom. vi:i2. 

Conquering power of death. I Cor. 
xv.55- 



Our threefold enemy met by the Trinity, 



The contrast of the first and last re- 
corded utterances of man to God. 

First. I heard Thy voice in the gar- 
den, and I was afraid because I was 
naked, and I hid myself. Gen. iii: 10. 

Last. Even so come Lord Jesus, come 
quickly. Rev. xxii:20. 



In Christ we are crucified to the law. 
Gal. ii:ig, 20. 

To the flesh. Gal. v:24. 
To the world. Gal. vi:i4. 



Two sparrows for a farthing. Matt. 
x:2o,. 

Five sparrows for two farthings. Luke 
xii:6. 

The one "thrown in" is not forgotten. 

Two Families. 
Origin. 

1. That which is born of the flesh. 
John iii:6. 

2. That which is born of the Spirit. 
John iii:6. 

Nature. 

1 "Is flesh," "After the flesh." John 
iii:6. 

2. " Is Spirit, " " After the Spirit. 
Rom. viii:5. 

Standing. 

1. In the flesh. Rom. viii:g. 

2. In the Spirit. Rom. viii:g. 
Inclination. 

1. Mind the things of the flesh. Rom. 
viir.5 



214 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



2. Mind the things of the Spirit. Rom 
viii : 5 . 
Result. 

i. Death. Rom. viii:6. 
2. Life and peace. Rom. viii:6. 

Short Prayers. 

Lord, save me. Matt. xiv:30. 
Lord, help me. Matt. xv:25. 
Lord remember me. Luke xxiii:42. 

The Rock. 

On the rock. Matt. vii:24; xvi:i8. 
In the rock. Ex. xxxiii:2i; Cant, ii: 14: 
Prow xxx : 26; Isa xlihil. 

Under the rock. Isa. xxxii:2; Ps. lxi:2. 
Out of the rock. 

1. Water. Deut. viii: 1 5 ; Neh. ix:i5. 

2. Honey. Deut. xxxii:i3: Ps. Ixxxi:i6. 

3. Oil. Deut. xxxii:i3; Job xxix:6. 

4. Fire. Judges vi:2i, 
And that Rock is Christ. 

What God has no Pleasure in. 

In the death of the wicked. Ezek 
xviii:32. 

In the strength of man. Ps. cxlvii:io. 

In wickedness. Ps. v:4. 

In fools. Eccl. v:4- 

In sacrifices. Heb. x:6. 

In those that draw back. Heb. x:38. 

The Christian worker in II Tim. ii. 

1. Son — Affection. 

2. Soldier— Endurance. 

3. Wrestler — Skill. 

4. Husbandman — Patience. 

5. Workman— Thoroughness. 

6. Vessel — Fitness. 

7. Servant — Subjection. 



God is abundant. 
In mercy. I Pet. i:3. 
In grace. II Cor. ix:8. 
In peace. Jer. xxxiii:6 



In truth. Jer. xxxiii:6. 
In pardon. Isa. lv:7. 
In power. Eph. iii:2o. 
In goodness. Ex. xxxiv:6. 



Man by Himself a Failure. 

Adam failed by self will. Gen. iii: 11,12. 

Abraham failed by lack of faith. »Gen. 
xii:ij-i3. 

Moses failed by impatience. Num. 
xx:i2. 

Samson failed through weakness. 
Judges xvi:i6, 17. 

Elijah failed through cowardice. I 
Kings xix:4. 

The two sons of Zebedee failed through 
hastiness. Luke ix:54, 55. 

Peter failed through over confidence. 
John xiii:37. 

Each seems to fail in his strong point. 



The limiting of Christ's power. John xi. 

As to place— If thou hadst been here, 
vs. 21, 22. 

As to time — I know that He shall rise- 
again in the resurrection at the last day. 
v. 24. 

As to extent — By this time He stinketh 
dead four days. v. 39. 

The Lord's answer: Said I not unto 
thee that if thou wouldst believe, thou 
shouldst see the glory of God. v. 40. 



The natural man loves not the one that 
reproves him. Prov. xv:i2. 
The truth. II Thess. ii:io. 
God. John v:42. 
Jesus. John viii:42. 
His brother. I John iii: 10. 



Jesus the King with the crown of 
thorns. Past. Matt xxvii:2g 

The crown of glory. Present; Heb. 2:9. 
Many crowns. Future. Rev. xix:i2.. 
God has — 
A bottle for our tears. Ps. lxvi:8 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



215 



A book for our thoughts. Mai. iii:i7. 
A bag for our transgressions. Job 
xivrij. 

The bag is sealed. 



God working for us. I Sam. xiv:6: 
John xvii:4. 

God working in us. Phil, ii : t 3 ; Heb. 
xiii:2i. 

God working by us. II Cor. v: 18-20. 

God working with us. Mark xvi:2o; 
II Cor. vi:i 



If thou hadst known ! Luke xix:42. 
The darkness comprehended it not. 
John i:5. 

The world knew Him not. John i:io. 
One whom ye know not. John 1:26. 
I (John) knew Him not. John i:3 1 ,33- 



Without blame before Him in love. 
Eph. i:4. 

Rooted and grounded in love. Eph. 
ii : 17. • 

Forbearing one another in love. Eph. 
iv:2. 

Speaking the truth in love. Eph. iv. 15, 

Edifying the body in love. Eph. iv:i6. 

Walk in love. Eph. v:2. 



Christ's inheritance is — 
His saints. Eph. i:i8. 
Israel. Isa. xix:2 5. 
The nations. Ps. ii : 8. 
All things. Heb. i:2. 
Collected by Miss Annie MacPherson 



EMIGRANTS. 

Emigrants in " Emmanuel's " land 



Bound for — Emmanuel's land. Heb. 
xi: 6. 

Time of sailing— To-day (perhaps). 
Heb. iii : 7 , 8. 

Price of passage — Without money and 
without price. Isa. lv:i. 

Captain's name — Jesus Christ. Heb. 
ii: 10. 

Crew — Ministers and converts. Acts 
viii:4. 

Passengers — Sinners saved by grace. 
Rom v:i, 2. 

Sea over which it passes — Time. Rev. 
x:6. 

Lighthouse — Holy Scriptures. Ps. 
cxix:io5 

Compass— Truth. John viii:32. 

Sails — Faith and love. II Thess. 1:3. 

Wind — The Holy Spirit. John VK63. 

Storage— Grace. Isa. lv:2; IlCor. xii:9. 

Anchor — Hope. Heb. vi:ig. 

Passengers are supplied with everything 
on the voyage. Phil. iv:ig. 

All are invited. Rev. xxii:i7. 

The vessel affords ample accommoda- 
tion. Lukexiv:22. 

TESTIMONY OF THE EMIGRANTS. 

"Come thou with us, and we will do 
thee good." Num. x:2g. 

"They that say such things declare 
plainly," etc. Heb. xi:i4. 

"The God of all grace who hath called 
us," etc. 1 Pet. v:io. 

"Arise ye and depart for this is not 
your rest." Micah ii:io. 

"/ am the way." John xiv:6. — 0. M. 

ASSURANCE. 

The divinity of 



should lose no time in having their places 
secured, as only one vessel shall ever 
leave our shores for that country. 

Vessel's name — Gospel Ship. Rom« 
i:i6. 

Port which it leaves — City of Destruc-Jlieve Believe occurs ninety-eight times 
tion. II Pet. iii:io. in th'e gosoei. 



In John's Gospel 
Christ. John x:30. 

It was written that we might believe 
that Jesus was the Son of God. John 
xx:3i. 

The gospel of John tells us how to be- 



2l6 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



In first epistle of John, know occurs 
thirty-two times. The epistle tells us 
what we may know. 

Six things worth knowing: 

1. That Christ Jesus was manifested 
to take away our sins. I John iii ; 5 . 

2. That we are of the Father. v:ig. 

3. That we have passed from death 
unto life, iii: 14. 

4. That no murderer hath Eternal Life, 
and he that hateth his brother is a mur- 
derer, iii: 1 5. 

5. That He abideth in us by the Spirit 
which he hath given us. iii: 24. 

6. That when he shall appear we shall 
be like Him. iii:2. 

D. L. Moody. 



PROMISES IN THE OLD TESTA- 
MENT CONCERNING THE 
HOLY SPIRIT. 

1. Poured out on all flesh. Joel ii:28, 

2. Poured out from on high. Isa, 
xxxii:i5. 

3. Upon the thirsty. Isa. xliv:3. 

4. He shall be in you. Ezek. xxxvi:27. 

5. Forever. Isa. lix:2i. 

D. L. Moody. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT'S PRESENCE 

DURING SIX GREAT EVENTS 

OF CHRIST'S LIFE. 

1. Conceived by the Spirit. Matt. i:20. 

2. Present at His baptsm. Matt, iii: 16. 

3. Present at His temptation. Luke 
iv.i. 

4 Present when He returned to, and 
His fame went abroad through Galilee. 
Luke iv:i4. 

5. Present and manifest in His mira- 
cles. Matt. xii:2S. 

6. Present at and in His resurrection. 
I Pet. iii:i8. D. L. Moody. 



THE FOOLISH VIRGINS. 
Matt. xxv:i-i3. 

We learn four things about the foolish 
virgins in this lesson. 



I. What they were — they were foolish. 
This is applied in God's Word. 

1. To ail that hate knowledge. Prov. 
i:22. 

2. To all not building upon the rock 
Christ Jesus— but upon self or some other 
sandy foundation. Matt. vii:2i-25. 

3. To all who mock at sin. Prov. xiv:9. 

4. To all walking in darkness. Eccl. 
ii:i4- 

5. To those who say there is no God. 
Ps. xiv:i; liii:i. 

6. To one whose heart is set on riches, 
and not on Christ. Luke xii:i5-20. 

7. To the past life of all who are 
Christians. I Cor. iii : 1 8 ; Titus iii 13 . 

All ungodly professors or lost sinners 
come under one or all of those scriptures, 

II. What they had. 

1. They had a virgin's dress. II Sam. 
xiii:i8. 

2. They had a lamp. Matt, xxv.3. 

3. They had a wick burning in the 
lamp. Matt. xxv:8. 

4. They had* an empty vessel. John 
v: 4 2. 

The dress and the lamp show' us their 
profession, and the wick -our talent or 
ability to shine for God and the vessel 
that which holds the treasure to shine for 
God. II Cor. ivrj. Some have put on 
the outward dress like Simon. Acts viii: 
1S-24. Demas. II Tim. iv:io. And 
the converts John wrote of. I John ii: 
19; but not Christ, Rom. xiii:i4; Eph. 
iv:22-24, and have a lamp of some de- 
nomination and are burning their wick 
and using their powers in getting up bean 
suppers, church fairs and raffles, and 
everything else to please the flesh, but 
still are without Christ and who will say 
at last Lord, Lord, have we not eaten 
and drank in thy presence, etc. Matt. 
vii:2i-23. 

III. What they had not. 

1. They had no knowledge of the 
Bridegroom. "I know you not." 12th 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



217 



verse. Our knowledge of Christ implies 
his knowledge of us. John x.14. 

2. They had no light. They never 
had any converting light. Ps. xix:7; 
cxix:i30. Do you wonder they said "our 
lamps are going out." Matt. xxv:8. 
R. V. 

3. They had no interest in the Bride- 
groom's coming, they all slumbered and 
slept. "There shall be mockers in the 
last day saying where is the promise of 
his coming." II Pet. ili 11-5. And be 
saying peace and safety, then sudden de- 
struction cometh upon them. I Thess. 
V.1-3. 

4. They had no oil in their vessels. 
Matt. xxv:3. In other words, they had 
no Holy Spirit. They never believed in 
the blood, or else they would have had 
the spirit — as the blood and the spirit go 
together. Lev. xiv: 14-17; I John ii : 2 7 ; 
v:8. Those who have the oil of the spirit 
belong to Christ. Rom. viiirg. 

IV. What they lost, 

1 . An entrance to the marriage supper 
of the Lamb. Rev. xix:o,. 

2. An entrance into heaven, for we 
read, "And the door was shut." Matt. 
xxv:i 1, 12. 

3. "Fulness of joy and pleasures for- 
evermore." Ps. xvi:n. 

4. "An inheritance incorruptible and 
undefiled." I Pet. i:4. 

5. They lost their never dying souls. 
Matt. xvi:26. Rev. xiv: 11. See to it, 
get on the rock, get oil in your vessel, be 
not only a professor of the Lord Jesus, 
but be a possessor of Him, then you will 
know what it is to have "Christ dwelling 
in you by faith, and living in you the 
hope of glory " Eph. iii 117; Col. 1:27. 

John Cuprie. 



THE WISE VIRGINS. 

"But the wise took oil in their vessels 
with their lamps." 

We have in this parable of the wise 



virgins a beautiful illustration of what 
God has made Christ to the believer as 
set forth in I Cor. i:30, namely, wisdom, 
righteousness, sanctification and redemp- 
tion. 

I. Five of them -were wise;' Chi is t our 
ivisdom that by which we know God. 
Wise in God's Word is — 

1. Applied to all f hat are converted and 
born again. Ps. xix:7. 

2. To all that have made the heart of 
God our Father glad. Prov. x:i; Zeph. 
iii : x 7 ; Luke xv:24. 

3. To all studying God's word. Prov. 
ix:9; Hosea vi:'3. 

4. To those who are willing to be told 
their faults. Prov. ix:S; xxvii:6. 

5. To all who are winning souls for 
Christ. Prov. xi:30; Matt. iv:ig. 

6. To those who will inherit glory. 
Prov. iii:35; John xvii:24. 

7. To those who shall shine as the stars 
forever and ever. Dan. xii:3. 

In order to attain to this the following 
Scriptures will help you. Col. ii : 3 . Ask 
for it. James i:5 Its worth. James iii: 
17. It is to be used. Ps. xc:i2. 

II. The virgins dress. Christ our 
righteousness. 

1. Set forth in type in God clothing 
Adam and Eve. Gen. iii:2i. 

2. In the raiment given to Rebekah. 
Gen. xxiv:53. 

3. In the garments of glory and 
beauty Aaron and his sons were clothed 
with. Exod. xxviii:i-8. 

4. The garments of salvation and robe 
of righteousness. Isa. lxi:io 

5. The Lord our righteousness. Jer. 
xxiii:6; xxxiii:i6. 

6. The wedding garment Christ taught 
all must have on at the marriage. Matt. 
xxiki-13. 

7. The fine linen the Lamb's wife must 
have on when she goes into the marriage 
supper of the coming Bridegroom. Rev. 
xix:6-9. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



III. The wise had oil in their vessels 
— Christ our sanctifcation. 

The believer is the light of the world. 
Matt, v:i4. God commands believers to 
shine. Phil, ii: 1 5, 16; Matt. v:i6; but 
the light must get into the vessel first be- 
fore it can shine out. II Cor. iv:6, 7. 
Then the lamp and the oil must go to- 
gether if others are to see the light. Ps. 
cxix:io5, 130; John xvi:T3-i5; I Cor. 
iii: [9. 

1. It makes us sons of God. Exod. 
xl:i \, 15; John i:i3. 

2. This oil is holy oil. Ps. lxxxix:2o; 
Eph. i:i3, 14. That we might be holy. 
I Pet. i:i5, 16. 

3. It is fresh oil. Ps. xcii:io, in order 
for us to bring out things daily new and 
old out of the treasure house. Ps. 
cxix:i8. 

4. This oil makes us glad. Ps. xlv:7. 

5. Our faces shine. civ:i5; Prov. xv:i3. 

6. Our cup run over. Ps. xxiii:5. John 
iv:29. 

7. Prophets to teach God's Word. I 
Kings xix:i6; John xv.26, 27. 

8. The Lord's vessels. Exod. xl:g; II 
Tim. ii:2i. 

9. To be all used for the Lord. Lev. 
xiv:i7; Rom. xii:i, 2. Be sure you have 
the oil or you are none of his. Rom. 
viii :g. 

IV. "And they that zuere ready went 
in with Him to the marriage and the door 
was shut;" "Christ our Redemption." 

What the others lost the wise gained. 
They gained: 

1. The marriage. Rev. xix 9. 

2. The inheritance. Rom. viii: 17; 
Gal. iv.7. 

3. "Fulness of joy and pleasures for- 
evermore." Ps. xvi:ii. 

4. A seat on the throne. II Tim. ii: 
12; Rev. iii:2i. 

5. Judging with Christ on the throne. 
I Cor. vi:2. 3. Truly we see here Christ 
the wisdom by which we come to know 



God, and the righteousness in which we 
can stand before God. The sanctifica- 
tion which prepares us for God, and the 
redemption which brings us home to 
God. And five were wise, and five were 
foolish; may all that read this be among 
the wise when the Bridegroom comes to 
take us into the marriage supper of the 
Lamb Rev. xx:i5. 

John Currie. 



THE GOOD MAN'S SECRET 
SPRING OF COMFORT. 

Text, Prov. xiv:i4. "A good man 
shall be satisfied from himself." 

I. Who ate counted good in God's 
Word ? 

None are good by nature. Ps. liil : 3 - 
Rom. iii:i2 ; but are made good by 
God's grace, and made temples for Him 
to dwell in. I Cor. iii: 16; vi:ig; xv:io. 

A man may be counted a righteous 
man like Lot, and yet not a good man 
because not separated entirely unto God. 
A good man is one that has God living 
and dwelling, and walking in him. II 
Cor. VK14-18. Barnabas was a good 
man. Acts xi:24. The Holy Ghost safcd 
Ahimaaz was a good man. II Sam. xviii: 
27. "And for a good man, some will 
even dare to die." Rom. v:7. "And to a 
good man God giveth wisdom, and 
knowledge and joy." Eccl. ii:26. 

II. "He shall be satisfied from him- 
self" 

How can this be ? In order to under- 
stand this text you have got to put some 
others alongside of it We read of the 
man of whom God has made good, that 
the triune God dwells in him. 

1. God the Spirit. John xiv:i6; I Cor. 
vi:i9. 

2 God the Father. I Cor. iii: 16; I 
John iv:i6. 

3. God the Son. John xiv:2i, 23; II 
Cor. xiii : 5. 

And in such — 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



219 



1 Is the love of God shed abroad in 
his heart. Rom. v:5. 

2 In Him a well of water springing 
up into everlasting life. John iv:i4. 

3. Out of Him shall flow rivers of 
living water. John vii 137-39 

4. Jesus said that my joy might remain 
in you, and that your joy might be full. 
John xv;ii ; xvii:l3. ■ 

5. The peace of God that passeth all 
understanding, shall keep your hearts and 
minds through Christ Jesus. Phil. iv:7. 

6. The kingdom of God is within. Rom. 
xiv:J/; xv:i3. 

7. Christ in you the hope of glory. 
Col. i:27. 

David understood what it was to be 
satisfied from himself when he said my 
heart bubbleth up a good matter, etc. 
Ps. xlv:i (margin). And Peter when 
filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts iv:8 
And Paul when filled with the same 
spirit. Acts ix: 1 7 ; xiir.9, 10; II Cor. 
xii:g, 10. And Stephen. Acts vi:5-8. 
And Barnabas. Acts xi:24. And so 
may every one who is filled with the 
Spirit. Eph. v:i3. And all the fulness 
of God. Eph. iirig. 

III. The source of supply. 

1. Christ must be inside as the sup- 
plier. Rev. iii:2o; John xv:5 

2. Self must be seen as crucified and 
kept under. Gal. ii:2o; I Cor. ix:25-27. 

3. Christ must be believed on fully. 
I Pet. i:8. 

4. Christ must be let dwell by faith in 
our hearts as the constant supply. Eph. 
iii:i7 

John Currie. 

THE FACE OF GOD IN JESUS 
CHRIST. 

Text. — "He that hath seen me hath 
seen the Father." "I and my Father 
are one." John xiv:9; x:30. 

These two texts clear up the mysteri 
ous texts, "No man hath seen God at any 



time. And no man shall see my face and 
live." John 1:18; Ex. xxxiii:20. Christ 
is "the brightness of the Father's glory, 
and the express image of his person. 
And the image of the invisible God." 
Heb. i:3; Col. i : 1 5. 

1. In this way Jacob saw the face of 
God. Gen xxxir.30. 

2. Moses. Ex. iii : 1 - 1 4 ; xxxiv:?9, 30; 
Acts vii.38. 

3. Joshua. Josh. v:i3-i5. 

4. Job. Job xl:4, 5; xlii:5, 6. 
5 Manaah. Judges xiii:22. 

6. Isaiah. Isa. vi:i-8. 

7. Daniel. Dan. x:i6. 

8. Paul. Actsix:3-6; I Cor. xv:S. 

9. John on Patmos. Rev. i 19-18, and 
every one ever since. 

1. What is it to see the face of God? 
Ans. 1. It is to have salvation. Ps 

lxxx:3, 7, 19. 

2. Not only salvation, but the light 
and knowledge of the new creation. II 
Cor. iv:6, 7; Ps. xxvii:i; II Cor. s:Vj. 

3. It is to have a new, and a purified 
heart. Ezek. xxxvi:26, 27; Matt. v:8. 

Don't think the latter passage teaches 
that we cannot see Him in time, but only 
see Him in eternity; it is true all that 
belong to him will see His face and be like 
him then, and see His face forever, and 
serve him. I John iii:2; Rev. xxii:3, 4; 
but all may see Him now in Christ who 
desire and live holy and godly lives. Sol. 
Song iv:7; Heb. xii:i4. 

II. What is it not to see His face? 

Ans. 1. Misery. Job xxiii:3-io; Rom. 
vii:23, 24. 

2. Trouble and sorrow. Job xxxiv:2g. 
Ps. xiii:i, 2. 

3. It is to have prayers unanswered. 
Isa. i:i 1-15, lix:i, 2. 

4. It is to be filled with darkness and 
death. Ps. cxliii:3'7 ; Mich. vii:S-io; 
Matt, vr.23. 

?. It is to have a foretaste of what the 
damned in hell are going to suffer through 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



all eternity. Ps. lv:4, 5; cxvi:3; Matt. 
xxvii:45, 46. 

How careful we all should be to obey. 
I John i:7; Heb. xii:i4; and walk in 
holiness, in the light, and be peaceable 
toward all men as Jesus was when upon 
earth. When we turn to sin God's face 
is hidden then. 

III. How may we get His face to shine 
upon us again ? 

Ans. By doing the four things He tells 
us in II Chron. vii:i4. 

1. Humble ourselves before God. 

2. Pray to Him. 

3. Seek His face. 

4. Turn from our wicked ways, then 
He will hear, forgive and heal. Ps. 
xxvii:8. 

John Currie. 

GOD'S ALL SEEING EYE. 

Gen. xvi:i3. 

We would have more pure professors 
like Joseph, and less disobedient ones like 
Jonah if all would believe with Hagar 
that God sees them. The word tells us, 
"'He sees every precious thing." Job 
xxviii:io. " Everything is naked and 
bare before Him." Heb. iv:i3. "His 
eyes are in every place." Prov. xv:3; II 
Chron. xvi:g. "The darkness hideth not 
from Him." Ps. cxxxix:ii, 12. Even 
"Hell is naked before Him." Job xxvi:6 
Yea, even men's hearts as well. Prov. 
xv:ii; I Sam. xvi:7; Jer. xvir.9, io. This 
truth ought to cause dread to the guilty 
sinner, and joy to the seeking sinner. 
Why? 

I. Because He sees the guilty sinner 
hiding from Him while he is calling on 
him. Gen. iii:9; John iii 119, 20. 

II. He sees the guilty sinner frying to 
cover his sin till justice overtakes him. 
Josh. vii:i, 13, 21. Guilty sinner read 
Amos ix:3; Obad. iv:S; Prov. xxviii:i3, 
and tremble. 

III. He sees the disobedient servant 



shirking duty, and exposes him and pun- 
ishes him. I Sam. x:22; Jonah i:3, 4, 17. 
Now while guilty sinners and disobe- 
dient professors ought to tremble at the 
thought of His all seeing eye, yet return- 
ing sinners ought to be joyful at the very 
thought of it. Why ? 

1. Because He sees them in their help- 
lessness and sickness, and says, "Wilt 
thou be made whole ?" John v:i-6. 

2. He sees them in their natural state 
of blindness, and wants to give them 
sight. John ix:i-g; Isa. iv:7; Acts 
xxvi:i8. 

3. He sees them when they receive his 
message, and saves from coming judg- 
ment. Jonah iii:5-io; I Thess. 1:9, 10; 
Matt. iii:7. 

4. He sees the sinner when he is seek- 
ing Him, and comes and saves him. 
Luke xix:i-io; Ps. xxvii:8; Jer. xxix:i3. 

5. He sees the one who gives up all 
because of love to Him, and speaks in 
great praise of such. Luke xxi:i-4; 
Rom. xii:i, 2; James ii:2i-23. 

May God's eye see every one of us 
every day giving up all for Him, be- 
cause He gave up all for us, and then 
we will not be afraid like Adam when he 
says, "Where art thou?" II Cor. viii:9; 
Luke xiv:27; ix:23. 

John Currie. 

CHRIST THE RIYER OF LIFE. 

Text. — "And a river went out of Eden 
to water the garden; and from thence it 
as parted into four heads." Gen. ii:io. 
And he shewed me a pure river of water 
of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of 
the throne of God and of the Lamb." 
Rev. xxii:i. 

Whether we look in the O. T. or in 
the N. T. we shall always find Christ 
was God's storehouse and channel of sup- 
ply for his people. The river in Genesis, 
and the river in Revelation point to 
Jesus Christ. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



221 



The river in Eden branches out into 
four heads; this surely sets forth Christ 
as we see Him running through the 
Eden of the 0. T. and branching out 
into the four heads, Matthew, Mark, 
Luke and John of the N. T. Yes, we 
believe it because Christ runs through 
the whole of the O. T. as he showed 
himself in the law of Moses, and the 
prophets, and in the Psalms. Luke 
xxiv:44. 

We read this river. 

i. Satisfy. Ps. xxxvi:8, 9. 

2. It enriches the face of the earth, 
this river of God. Ps. lxv:g. 

3. It makes glad. Ps. xlvi:4. 

Temporal blessings and spiritual bless- 
ings all came, we are taught, to the 
saints of old through Christ, read I 
Cor. x:3, 4; Ps. cv:4i; cviii: 1 4. 'Jesus 
Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and 
forever;" He never changes; He is our 
supply for all our need to-day as of old. 
Phil. iv:i9. 

Let us look at the four heads and see 
this brought out. 

I. Pison (Gen. ii : 1 1), which means 
fulness. 

"It pleased the Father that in Him 
should all fulness dwell." Col. i: 19. "In 
Him dwelleth all the fulness of the God- 
head bodily." Col. ii:g. " In whom are 
hid all the treasures of wisdom and 
knowledge." Col. ii 13. 

God gave Him the Spirit without meas- 
ure. John iii:34. Paul desired to preach 
only in this fulness of Christ. Rom. xv: 
29; Phil, iv.13, and he prayed others 
might have it. Eph. Hi: 14-19. 

John said we have received of His ful- 
ness,' and grace for grace. John i:i4-i6. 
Of old "it gushed out and ran like a 
river." Ps. cv:4i. 

II. Gihon (Gen. ii: 1 3), freeness or grace. 
How free this river is for all. 

1 The Father invites us to drink. Isa. 
lv:r, 2. 



2. The son invites us to drink. John 
vii:37- 

3. The Holy Spirit and the bride in- 
vite us to drink. Rev. xxir.17. 

Jesus told his disciples when sending 
them to preach the gospel, to give freely 
as they had received freely. Matt. x:3. 

III. Hiddekel (Gen. ii:i4), Torrent or 
tower. All power is given to Jesus. 
Matt. xxviii:i8. Christ is not only the 
wisdom of God, but the power of God. 
I Cor. i:24. Power alone belongs to 
Him. Ps. lxii.T 1. 

What does He do with it ? 

1. He exerts it to forgive us our sins. 
Mark ii:io. 

2. To make believers sons of God. 
i:ii, 12. 

3. To fit us in service. II Cor. xii: 
9, 10. 

4. To keep us for Himself. I Pet. 
i=4. 5- 

5. To uphold all worlds and all things 
He has made. Heb. i:2, 3. 

May we know what is the exceeding 
greatness of his power which he wrought 
in Christ when he raised Him from the 
dead. Eph. i: 17-20. 

IV. Euphrates (Gen. ii: 14..) Fruit- 
fulness. 

No fruit without Christ. He says, 
"From me is thy fruit found." Hosea 
xiv:8. "The branch cannot bear fruit of 
itself. . . .without me ye can do nothing." 
John xv:4, 5. 

The four gospels truly set forth the 
four heads of this river we read of that 
went out of Eden, but we may get them 
all set forth by way of illustration in 
Jonn's gospel. 

1. Fulness. John 1:16. 

2. Freeness. John vii:37; x:io. 

3. Power (a) over nature. John ii 19-11; 
xxi:6. 

(b). Over disease. John iv:5o, 54; v: 
6-9. 

(c). Over death. John xi:26, 43. 



222 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



(d). Over Satan. John xii 3 1 ; xiv:30; 
xvi : 1 1 . 

4. Fruitfulness. "But if it die it 
bringeth forth much fruit." John xii:24. 
Read Isa. liii:ii; Rev. vii:g. 

John Currie. 



PREVAILING PRAYER. 

The recognition of answers to our 
prayers is infrequent when we remember 
that we have such exceeding great and 
precious promises. Is it that we do not 
watch unto prayer as we do watch for 
replies to our earthly communications ? 
Are there not denials of many of our 
requests because we do not realize the 
conditions attached to some of the 
promises, nor the attitude of mind and 
heart which forbids the Father's love from 
gratifying itself in the bestowal of what 
we ask? See Jas. iv;3; John xv:7; c. f., 
Ps. xxxvii:4, 5; John xv:i5. 

Read consecutively Heb. xi:7; Ezek. 
xiv:3; Ps. Ixvi:i8; Prov. xxviii:i3; Jas. 
v:i6; Mark xi:25; Mark xiv:36; Ps. xci: 

14, 15; I John iii:2i-23; Johnxiv:i3, 14; 

I John v:i4, 15. 

Directions and suggestions. Ps. xl:i; 

Ps. xxvii:7; Dan. ix:3; Acts x:30, 31; 

(Mark ix:28, 29); Acts xiv 123; Matt, vi: 

5-15; I Tim. ii:i, 2, 8; Rom. xii: 2; 

Eph. vi:8; Phil. iv:6; Col. iv:2; I Thess. 

v:i7,i8. 

Is it any wonder we receive so few 

direct, explicit and immediate answers to 

our prayers ? 
The law of acceptable prayer seems 

almost to blot out all the exceeding 

promises unless we also learn: 

The gospel of prayer. Rom. viii: — 

Luke xi:i-i3; Ps. 1: 14, 15; cxlv:i8, 19; 

Isa. lxv:24; Jer. xxix:i3; Jer. xxxiii:3; 

Phil. iv:ig; Mark xi:22-24; Jas. i:5-7; 

Jas. v:i4-i8; I Pet. iii: 1 2 ; IJohnv:i6; 

John xvi:23, 24; Matt, xvirhig. 

Still further encouragements. Heb. 

xiii:8, Mark ix:23; Luke xvii:5, 9; Matt. 



xxi:20-22; Matt. xvii:i9"2i; Isa. lviii:6-g; 
Matt. ix:27-29; xv:28. 

Keep a record in an account book of 
date, promise, request, answer, — to the 
glory of God's abounding grace, and for 
the comfort of your own discouraged 
heart. 

C. M. Whittelsey. 



THE HOPE SET BEFORE US. 

Heb. vi:i3-20. 

What from the analogy of faith^ ought 
we to expect the hope set before us to be ? 
The backward look of faith sees our Lord 
on the cross; the present look of faith, or 
the life of the believer, sees Jesus Christ, 
our High Priest, at God's right hand foi 
us; therefore we ought to expect the for- 
ward look of faith, or our Hope, also to 
be personal; i. e. to be our blessed Lord 
Himself. Life by a look, see John iii: 14, 
15, and Num. xxi:S 9; see also II Cor. 
iv.6. To live is Christ, Phil. i:2i, and 
Heb. xii: 1, 2. "Let us run with patience 
the race that is set before us, looking 
unto Jesus, etc." He now sits at the 
right hand of God and we are changed 
into His image looking (beholding) etc. 
II Cor. iii: 1 8. But the difference be- 
tween the two earlier looks and the con- 
summating look is by the Spirit and in 
person. Just so in I John iii: 1-3. 

I. Our Lord Jesus Christ is Himself 
the Hope. See I Tim. i:i. " The Lord 
Jesus Christ, which is our Hope." 

II. The Hope is not what we have now, 
in the forgiveness of sin and the fruit of 
the Spirit. Rom: viii: 1, 9-n, 16-20, 23- 
25; for what a man hath why doth he yet 
hope for ? But beyond present fruit the 
redemption of the body. Our hope is 
manifestation in Col. iii: 1-4 and John i: 
1-3; also is resurrection, Phil. iii:2>, 21. 

III. The hope is not death, but resur- 
rection and manifestation, I Cor. xvi^i 
and II Cor. v:i-io; Phil. i:2i-23, being 
"with Christ" is an intermediate state. 



NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. 



223 



IV. The hope is not something A T 
death but A T the appearing. I Pet. 1:3- 
9, "reserved in heaven" ( just as property 
is secured by the deeds in the court- 
house.) 

V. The Hope is not the Judgment Seat 
in the sense of being brought into court 
(see John v:24), but in the sense of the 
distribution of prizes. II Cor. v:io and 
I Cor. iv:i-s. Hence the Hope is the 
Bq/ua (reward seat) of Christ ! ! ! 

VI. The hope is not the conversion of 



the world, but taking out a people for 
His name. Actsxv:i3. 

VII. The Hope IS the MARRIA GE. 
Betrothed, espoused, II Cor. xi:2; Eph. 
v:25-27, and Rev. xix:6-g. The Lord's 
supper till He come. 

VIII. The Hope is the Glory. Jude 24. 
Everything in the Hope is connected with 
His person and His coming personally. 
Acts, chap. i. 

C. M. Whittelsey 



INDEX. 



Attitude of the Church 

Access to God 

Adoption 

Advocate, My 

Against Me 

All things of God 

Ascension, Necessity of the 

All 

Advents of Christ, the two 

Assurance 

Biographical Sketch 

Bible; how to use it, The 

" characteristics of the 

Benefits of Bible fnarking 

Bible, Christ's testimony to the. 
Bible, a means of promoting revivals, 

the 

Bible Readers, Rules for 

Bible reading and Bible study 

Blood, value of Christ's 

Blood, His own. 

Blood of Christ, The 

Blood, Precious 

Blood of the New Covenant, The. . . 

Business, The greatest 

Black 

BlOt OUt r 

Birth, The New 

Believe Christ? Why don't sinners . . 
Believer's separateness from the world, 

The. 

Believer's calling. The 

Believers, twenty all things for 

Believer's Path in Old Testament. . . 

Before God 

Believers, Three deaths to 

Banking Hints for Believers 

Body of Christ, The 

Believer, Seven attitudes of the .... 
Believer's separation from the world . 

Believer's fellowship, The 

Believer's, The present portion of. . 

Believer's Position, The 

Believer's Interest in Christ, The. . . 
Benefits of trials 

15 



112 Behold 165 

113 Behold 173 

129 Better 179 

149 Building of character, The 1S9 

175 Confession 47 

176 Christ's Love for His own 82 

179 Characteristics of Divine Forgiveness 90 

1 83 Come 92 

205 Coming to Christ, Warrant for. ..... 95 

215 "Comes" of Scripture 96 

Christ seeking lost sheep 97 

33 Can we know? 97 

33 Confession and counsel 98 

33 Converts, Young. . ' 99 

40 Christ, the measure of the Believer's 

Separateness 99 

40 Christian's Hiding Place, The 102 

41 Christian obedience 103 

43 Christ, Following 103 

45 Christian, The 103 

46 Christian, What is a 109 

46 Conditions of Sonship 109 

47 Christian Liberty in 

47 Church, Attitude of the 112 

87 Christian in relation to the Holy 

89 Spirit The .... 1 14 

89 Christian's relationships, The 1 15 

93 Christ, The body of 116 

96 Consider, Remember, etc 118 

Conquerors, More than 1 1 S 

99 Christ Jesus in Isaiah liii 119 

100 Christian work, Essentials to effective 121 

102 Christian service , 124 

102 Christian at work, The > . 126 

103 Christian workers, Qualifications for. 127 
105 Christ, In 12S 

130 Christ and the Christian 130 

116 Contrasted conditions 132 

132 Christ, What we are "made" in 134 

135 Christ, Union with 134 

139 Christ, Joint heirship with 137 

139 Christian's verb "to be," The 141 

142'Christ and His servants in Acts 142 

i42|Christ, Sufferings of, in I Pet 143 

i44|Christ the Burden Bearer 145 

225 



226 



INDEX. 



Counsellor, My 153 

Christ, Our example 154 

Christ, Our Rock 156 

Christ, The Corner Stone J 57 

Child Jesus, The 1 59 

Christ, all in all 161 

Christ, The 163 

Christ — righteousness 164 

Christ Persecuted and Glorified 165 

Crucifixion, The 167 

Christ's Intercessory Prayer 168 

City, A 170 

Communicable Fullness of God 170 

Christ's Witnesses 171 

Cups of Scripture. 172 

City of God, The 174 

Commit 175 

Consider 1 84 

Crossing Jordan 185 

Covenant of Grace 189 

Character, The building of 189 

Christ, Three-fold ministry of 195 

Christ the river of life 220 

Death, Life or 91 

Deliverance and duty. 124 

David's Cry 128 

Daily experience 141 

Deliverer, My 150 

Deliverance, On 186 

Dinner from the Bible, A 194 

End of Law 79 

Eternal Life, The 88 

Eternal Life, Some things said about 93 

Eternal future punishment. . . 97 

1 ' Even as He " 103 

Essentials to effective Christian work. 121 

Emptying 145 

Example, My 154 

Excee dings in Ephesians 176 

Everlasting God, The 179 

Every morning 212 

Emigrants 215 

Familiar knowledge of the Scriptures 38 

Five Golden Rules for Bible readers. 41 

Fruit-bearing 56, 62 

Few thoughts on prayer 84 

Forgiveness of sins 90 

Forgiveness, Characteristics of Divine 90 

Forgiveness 93 

Following Christ 103 

Friends, My 104 

Four Bible pearls 105 

Free no 

Forgiveness 1 1 1 

Faith 117 

Four-fold "good cheer" of Jesus. ... 133 

Fourteen great facts in John VI 142 

Faint not 143 



PAGE. 

Five-fold circle around the Saviour. . 161 

Fear 190' 

Foreign missionaries ... 194 

Foolish Virgins 216 

Face of God in Jesus Christ, The. . . 219 

Gleanings from the 119th Psalm. ... 36 

Grace 63 

God's Love 80 

Great question, The 89 

Greatest business, The 87 

God's feelings toward sinners 91 

God a refuge 93 

Gospel, The 94 

God's thoughts of our sins 95 

God, Before 103 

Gleanings (calling, standing, etc.). . . 105 

Gleanings in Romans 105 

Guidance . . 106 

God's people and their source of 

strength 108 

Good cheer 117 

Grace 132 

God of Glory and His Divine purposes 133 

God's "Fear Nots" 145 

God's unspeakable gift 157 

God's benefits ^ 166 

God for us 1 69 

God's sovereignty in grace 174 

God's look 175 

God's purpose, etc., in Ephesians. . 176 

Goodness of God, The . 179 

Grounds for trusting God 1 8 r 

Glory of God, The 185 

God's names representing Life 188 

God and little children 188 

Grace, covenant of 189 

Galatians xi: 19, 20 190 

Good man's secret spring of comfort, 

The 218 

God's all-seeing eye 220 

How to study and teach the Scriptures 17 

How to mark the Bible 33 

How to use the Bible 34 

Holy Scriptures. ... 41 

His own blood 46 

Holy Spirit for service, The. ....... 65 

Holy Spirit, The 67 

Holy Spirit, Titles and symbols of the 68 

Holy Spirit, His work; the 68 

Holy Spirit, The 68 

Holy Spirit, Types of the 68 

Holy Spirit, Names and titles of the. 69 
Holy Sonship and union with Christ, 

etc 102 

Holiness, The Ground and Motive of 102 
Holy Spirit, The Christian in rela- 
tion to 114 

Holy Spirit, Father and Son 134 



INDEX. 



227 



PAGE. 

Helper, My. 151 

Himself 161 

His Name 164 

Heavenly Places in Ephesians. . . . . 176 

His Coming again 204 

Hope, That blessed 206 

He is Precious 211 

Holy Spirits presence during six great 

events of Christ's life 216 

Hope set before us, The 222 

Inheritance, Our 11S 

Isaiah — Fifty-third Chapter 119 

"I said I will take heed," etc 12S 

It is written 160 

It is written (of Paul) 16S 

"If" of unbelief, The 169 

"I ams" of Jesus, The 176 

"lams" of St. Paul, The 178 

"In the midst" 186 

Innocence of Jesus, The 212 

Justification 69, 93 

Jesus a Saviour 95 

Jesus 1 58 

Jesus, Remember 159 

Jesus, The child. 1 59 

Jesus Himself. 160 

Jesus Risen... 163 

John's first Epistle, Notes on. . . . 198-204 

Judgment 267 

Keys to the Word 7 

Know ? Can we 97 

Keeper, My 15 ' 

Law 76 

Law, End of 79 

Law and Righteousness 79 

Love of God, The 79 

Love, God's, characteristics of 80 

dwelling in us 80 

how it protects us 80 

and our eternal security 80 

Love, In 82 

Love, Christ's for His own 82 

Life, The eternal 88 

Life or death 9 r 

"Lose his own soul" — "Life" 93 

Life, Eternal . 93 

Living to please God 104 

Life, Quickening of Spiritual 108 

Liberty, Christian 1 1 1 

Light of the world, Ye are 122 

Life, My 149 

Leader, My 155 

Lord as Leader, The. . . 155 

Lessons from the Life of Enoch. ... 168 

Law, The 207 

My besetting Sin 96 

More than conquerors 118 

Man in Christ, A 128 



PAGE. 

"My God shall supply all your need" 130 
"My meditation of Him — sweet". . . . 147 

"Me" 158 

Mystery 175 

More knowledge 176 

Man by himself a failure 214 

New Birth, The • 93 

Necessity of the 94 

Name, The 175 

Negatives in Ephesians 1 76 

Necessity of the Ascension 1 79 

Notes on John's first Epistle 198 

Names of Christ in I John 202 

Old and New Testaments, The 25 

Obedience, Christian 103 

Our Inheritance 118 

Our Joint-heirship with Christ 137 

Open eye , 167 

Our Fullness 175 

Our Father 176 

One things of the Bible, The 183 

Precious Blood 47 

Prevailing Prayer 82 

Prayer 83 

Prayer, A few thoughts on 84 

Peace 84 

No ,. . 85 

False 85 

made 85 

God disposed to have 86 

how it may be obtained 86 

how it may be retained 87 

the results . ' 87 

Punishment Eternal Future 97 

Prosperity, Secret of 105 

Past, Present and Future no 

Prove all things 116 

Personal work 123 

Parable of two sons 123 

Purposes, Divine 133 

Purpose of Christ's Sacrifice, The. . . 133 

Purpose of God 1 36 

Power of God 1 36 

Pleasure of God 136 

Present portion of Believers, The. . . 139 

Priest, My 153 

Precious Stone or Rock of Offense. . . 157 

Precious Building 157 

Practical , 1 60 

Pardon, peace, purity, etc 182 

Prophecy and fulfilment 185 

Plenteous Redemption 187 

Pride 187 

Prayer. ... 192 

Promises in the Old Testament con- 
cerning the Holy Spirit 216 

Prevailing Prayer 222 

Quickening of Spiritual Life 108 



228 



INDEX. 



PAGE. 

Qualifications for Christian Workers. 127 

Quickly 206 

Righteous and Wicked Contrasted. . 92 

Refuge, God a 93 

Revival, A 109 

Right Doing and its Results 112 

Reward to Victors, in Revelation. ... ng 

Readings in Timothy 129 

Refuge, My 149 

Remember Jesus 159 

Resurrection of Christ 163 

Ready 182 

Redemption, Plenteous 187 

Rock, The 214 

Suggestions to Young Christians be- 
ginning the Study of the Bible . . . 34 
Scripture, to the Authority, Testimony 

of the Old Testament . . ... 37 

Scriptures, a familiar knowledge of 
the, as a qualification for work 

among Inquirers. 38 

Study of the Word, The 39 

Summary of Christ's testimony to the 

Bible 40 

Scripture answers to Roman Cath- 
olics 44 

Seek God 89 

Sinners, God's Feelings toward 91 

Sinners' Hiding place 91 

" Soul, Lose his own" 93 

Some things about Eternal Life. ... 93 

Sins, God's thoughts of our. ...... 95 

Saviour, Jesus a r . . . . 95 

Sinners, This man receiveth 95 

Sin, My besetting 96 

Sinners believe Christ? Why don't. . 96 

Salvation, Seven aspects of 97 

Salvation 97 

Sheep, Christ seeking Lost 97 

Servants of God 104 

Secret of Prosperity 105 

Strength, The Source of 108 

Sonship, Conditions of .... 109 

Souls, Winning 121 

Service, Christian 124 

Servants and Stewards 125 

Sanctification , 128 

Shall not's of John's Gospel, The 129 

Supply all need 130 

Seven attitudes of the Believer. . . . . 332 

Seven things about "the flesh" .. .. 136 

Sins withholding Good from us 138 

Sowing and Reaping 138 

Song of the Believer, The 138 

Sufferings of Christ in I Peter . . 143 

Sufferings of Christians in I Peter . 143 

Suffering with Christ 143 

Shepherd, My 151 



PAGE- 

Saviour, My , 152 

Seven " I wills" of Christ 161 

Salvation 173 

Seven Impossible Things. . . . ' . 177 

Sufferings of Christ, Witness to. . . . 183 
Some thoughts about the glory of 

Christ 184 

Seven New Testament Command- 
ments 184 

Sufferings and the Glory 210 

Scriptural Gleanings 213 

Short Prayers 214 

Two Men 89 

Two Leaders (the great Question) . . 89 

This Man receiveth Sinners 95 

Twenty all things for Believers 102 

Three deaths to the Believers 105 

Trust . . 107 

Take heed 128 

Timothy, Readings in 129 

Thanksgiving and Praise.. 131 

Trouble, To those in 146 

Truth, The T48 

Teacher, My 1 50 

Teach Me 169 

Togethersin Ephesians 176 

Trees and Rivers 184 

Twelve classes God considers Fools. 188 

Two sides to Truth 191 

Three-fold Ministry of Christ 195 

That blessed Hope 206 

Two Families 213 

Union with Christ 134 

Unsearchable Riches of Christ 158 

Unbelief, The " if " of 169 

Value of Christ's Blood 45. 

Very Personal 133 

Word of God, The 36 

Word, The (?) 36 

Word, The 37 

What God's word is able to do 37 

Word of God, The 39 

Word, Thy 39 

What the Word says about itself. ... 42 

Words, The Inspired. 42 

Word, Symbols given in the Scrip- 
ture, of the 43 

Word, Names of the 43 

Without 92 

Way of the Righteous and Wicked 

Contrasted 92 

Warrant for Coming to Christ 95. 

Why don't Sinners believe Christ?. . 96 
What Jesus calls His Disciples (in 

John) 105 

Will of God in every day Guidance. . 106 

W T hat is a Christian ? 109 

What the Lord would have us like. . 113 



INDEX. 



229 



PAGE. PAGE. 

Whatsoever 116 With Christ 175 

Winning Souls 121 What God hath Prepared 177 

Work, Personal t 123 Wilderness Experiences 179 

Work 1 26 Will of God, The 1S0-181 

What we are " made" in Christ . 134 Witness to the Sufferings of Christ. . 183 

Work of Father, Son and Holy Spirit 154 " Waiting" in three aspects.-. 194 

What Paul found to be Grateful for. i40|Whose I am and Whom I Serve .. 211 

Way, My i4SjWhited Sepulchres 211 

Wisdom, My i53JWomen's Work 211 

Why Jesus came into the World. . . 158 Young Converts 99 

What think ye of Christ? 162 What God has no pleasure in 214 

Who is this? 166 Wise Virgins 217 

Witnesses, Christ's 171 jVe are the Light of the World 122 

"Why'" 1 751 Vield your Members 131 



Morks of D. L. Moody. 

By the strenuous cultivation of his gift Mr. Moody has attained to a clear and in 
cisive style which preachers ought to study; and he has the merit, which many more cul 
tivated men lack, of saying nothing that does not tend to the enforcement of the particu- 
lar truth he is enunciating. He knows how to disencumber his text of all extraneous 
matter, and exhibits his wisdom as a preacher hardly less by what he leaves out than by 
what he includes. Apart from its primary purpose each of these books has a distinct 
value as a lesson on homiletics to ministers and students. — The Christian Leader. 

Bible Characters. 

Prevailing Prayer; What Hinders It. Thirtieth Thousand 

To the Work ! To the Work ! A Trumpet Call. Thir- 
tieth Thousand. 
The Way to God and How to Find It, One Hundred 

and Fifth Thousand. 
Heaven; its Hope; its Inhabitants; its Happiness; its Riches; 

its Reward. One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Thousand. 
Secret Power; or the Secret of Success in Christian Life 

and Work. Seventy-Second Thousand. 

Twelve Select Sermons. One Hundred and Sixty-Fifth 

Thousand. 
The above are bound in uniform style and price. Paper covers 30 cents: doth, 
60 cents. Also issued in cloth, beveled edge, and put up in neat box containing the 
seven volumes. Price 0/ set, $4 20. 



Daniel, the Prophet. Tenth Thousand. Paper cover, 20c. 

cloth, 40c. 
The Full Assurance of Faith. Seventh Thousand. Some 

thoughts on Christian confidence. Paper cover, 15c; cloth, 25c. 

The Way and the Word. Sixty-Fifth Thousand. Com- 
prising "Regeneration," and "How to Study the Bible." Cloth, 25c; 
paper, 15c. 

How to Study the Bible. Forty-Fifth Thousand. Cloth, 15c. 

paper, 10c. 

The Second Coming of Christ. Forty-Fifth Thousand. 

Paper, 10c. 

Inquiry Meetings. By Mr. Moody and Maj. Whittle. 

Paper, 15c. 

Gospel Booklets. By D L. Moody. 12 separate sermons. 

Published in small square form, suitable for distribution, or inclosing in 
letters. 35 cents per dozen, $2.50 per hundred. May be had assorted or 
of any separate tract. 

Any 0/ the above sent postpaid to any address on receipt of price. 

Special rates for distribution made known on application. 



148 & 150 Madison StftemWlty P* I\?^II. 12 Bible House, Astor PI. 



REFERENCE BOOKS 



FOR 



BIBLE STUDENTS. 



JAMIESON, FAUSSET & BROWN'S Popular Portable Com- 
mentary. Critical, Practical, Explanatory. Four volumns in neat 
box, fine cloth, ^S.oo; half bound, $10.00. 
A new edition, containing the complete unabridged notes in clear type on good paper, 

in four handsome 12 mo. volumes of abojt 1.000 pages each, with copious index, numerous 

illustrations and maps, and a Bible Dictionary compiled from Dr. Wm. Smith's standard 

work. 

Bishop Vincent of Chautauqua fame says : " The best condensed commentary on the 

whole Bible is Jamieson, Fausset &. Brown." 

CRU DEN'S UNABRIDGED CONCORDANCE TO THE 
HOLY SCRIPTURES. With life of the author. 864 pp., 8vo., 
cloth (net), $1.00; half roan, sprinkled edges (net), 2.00; half roan, 
full gilt edges (net), $2.50. 

SMITH'S BIBLE DICTIONARY, comprising its Antiquities, Biog- 
raphy, Geography and Natural History, with numerous maps and illus- 
trations. Edited and condensed from his great work by William 
Smith, LL. D. 776 pages, Svo, many illustrations, cloth, $1.50. 

THE BIBLE TEXT CYCLOPEDIA. A complete classification of 
Scripture Texts in the form of an alphabetical list of subjects. By 
Rev. James Inglis. Large Svo, 524 pages, cloth, §1.75. 

The plan is much the same as the " Bible Text Book" with the valuable additional 
help in that the texts referred to are quoted in full. Thus the student is saved the time and 
labor of turning to numerous passages, which, when found, may not be pertinent to the 
subject he has in hand. 

THE TREASURY OF SCRIPTURE KNOWLEDGE; consist- 
ing of 500,000 scripture references and parallel passages, with numer- 
ous notes. Svo, 77S pages, cloth, §2.00. 

A single examination of this remarkable compilation of references will convince the 
reader of the fact that " the Bible is its own best interpreter." 

THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, translated by William 
'Whistox, A. M., with Life, Portrait, Notes and Index. A new cheap 
edition in clear type. Large Svo, 6S4 pages, cloth, §2.00. 

too.ooo SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS. By Rt. Rev. Samuel 
Fallows, A. M., D. D. 512 pages, cloth, $1.00. 

A complete Dictionary of synonyms and ivords 0/ opposite meanings, with an appen- 
dix of Briticisms, Americanisms, Colloquialisms, Homonims, Homophonous words, Foreign 
.Phrases, etc., etc. 

" This is one of the best books of its kind we have seen, and probably there is nothing 
published in the country that is equal to it." — Y. M. C. A. Watchman. 



NEW YORK: ETIpmintiH PPWPlI CHICAGO: 

12 Bible House, Astor PI. f IC/IIII/V [I. IT^UCII 148 & 1 50 Madison St 



SUGGESTIVE BOOKS - - 

- - for BIBLE READERS. 



NEW NOTES FOR BIBLE READINGS. By the late S. R. Briggs, 
with brief Memoir of the author by Rev. Jas. H. Brookes, D. D., 
Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.00 ; flexible, 75 cents. 

" New Notes" is not a reprint, and contains Bible Readings to be found in no other 
similar work, and. it is confidently believed, will be found more carefully prepared, and 
therefore more helpful and suggestive. 

Everyone of the 60,000 readers of " Notes and Suggestions for Bible Readings " will 
welcome this entirely new collection containing selections from D. L. Moody, Major Whittle, 
J. H. Brookes, D. D., Prof. W. G. Moorehead, Rev. E. P. Marvin, Jno. Currie, Rev. W. J. 
Erdman, Rev. F. E. Marsh, Dr. L. W. Munhall, etc. 

NOTES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR BIBLE READINGS. By 

S. R. Briggs and J. H. Elliott. 

Containing, in addition to twelve introductory chapters on plans and method of Bible 
study and Bible readings, over six hundred outlines of Bible readings, by many of the 
most eminent Bible students of the day. Crown 8vo, 20.2 pp. Cloth, library style, $1-00 ; 
flexible cloth, .75; paper covers, .50. 

THE OPEN SECRET ; or, The Bible Explaining Itself. A series 

of intensely practical Bible readings. By HANNAH Whitall Smith. 

320 pp. Fine cloth, $1.00. 

That the author of this work has a faculty of presenting the " Secret Things " that are 

revealed in the Word of God is apparent to all who have read the exceedingly popular work, 

"The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life." 

BIBLE BRIEFS ; or, Outline Themes for Scripture Students. By 
G. C. & E. A. Needham. i6mo., 224 pages, cloth, $1.00. 

■ The plan of these expositions is suggestive rather than exhaustive, and these suggestions 
are designed to aid Evangelists at home and missionaries abroad, Bible School Teachers, and 
Christian Association Secretaries and Workers. 

BIBLE HELPS FOR BUSY MEN. By A. C. P. Coote. 

Contains over 200 Scripture subjects, clearly worked out and printed in good legible 
type, with an alphabetical index. 140 pages, 16mo.; paper, 40c; cloth flex., 60c. 
" Likely to be of use to overworked brethren."— C. H. Spurgeon. 
" Given in a clear and remarkably telling form."— Christian Leader. 

RUTH, THE MOABITESS ; or Gleaning in the Book of Ruth. 

By Henry Moorhouse. i6mo., paper covers, 20c; cloth, 40c. 
A characteristic series of Bible readings, full of suggestion and instruction. 

BIBLE READINGS. By Henry Moorhouse. i6mo. , paper covers, 
30 cents ; cloth, 60 cents. 
A series by one pre-eminently the man of one book, an incessant, intense, prayerful 
student of the Bible. 

SYMBOLS AND SYSTEMS IN BIBLE READINGS. 

Rev. W. F. Crafts. 64 pages and cover, 25 cents. 

Giving a plan of Bible reading, with fifty verses definitely assigned for each day, the 
Bible being arranged in the order of its events. The entire symbolism of the Bible ex- 
plained concisely and clearly. 



12 Bible House, Astor PI. H6/T\II/5 P« *\Sv6ll H8 & 1 50 Madison St. 



<x]HAND BOOKS FOR BIBLE STUDENTS^ 



THE LIFE OF CHRIST. Rev. Jas. Stalker, M. A. A new 
edition, with introduction by Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer, D. D. ■ i2mo. 
cloth, 166 pages, 60 cents. 

This work is in truth "Multum in Parvo," containing within small compass a vast 
amount of most helpful teaching, so admirably arranged that the reader gathers with re- 
markable definiteness the whole revealed record of the life work of our Lord in a nutshell 
of space and with a minimum of study. 

THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL. By Rev. Jas. Stalker, M. A. i2mo. 

cloth, 184 pages, 60 cents. 

As admirable a work as the exceedingly popular volume by this author on ' The Life 
of Christ." 

"An exceedingly compact life of the Apostle to the Gentiles. It is bristling with 
information, and is brief, yet clear. As an outline of Paul's life it cannot be surpassed." — 
N. Y. Christian Inquirer. 

THE BIBLE STUDENTS' HANDBOOK. i2mo cloth, 288 pages, 
50 cents. 

One of those helpful works, worth its price, multiplied by several scores. It con- 
tains an introduction to the study of the Scriptures, with a brief account of the books of 
the Bible, their writers, etc., also a synopsis of the life and work of our Lord, and complete 
history of the manners and customs of the times, etc. 

THE TOPICAL TEXT BOOK. i6mo. cloth, 292 pages, 60 cents. 

A remarkably complete and helpful Scripture text book for the topical study of the 
Bible. Useful in preparing Bible readings, addresses, etc. 

THE BIBLE REMEMBRANCER. 24mo. cloth, 198 pages, 50 cts. 

A complete analyses of the Bible is here given, in small compass, in addition to a 
large amount of valuable Biblical information, and twelve colored maps. 

BIBLE LESSONS ON JOSHUA AND JUDGES. By Rev. J. 
Gurney Hoare, M. A. i6mo cloth, 124 pages, 50 cents. 

FIFTY-TWO LESSONS ON (1) The Works of Our Lord ; (2) Claims 
of Our Lord. Forming a year's course of instruction for Bible classes, 
Sunday schools and lectures. By Flavel S. Cook, M. A., D. D. 
i6mo. cloth, 104 pages, 50 cents. 

FIFTY-TWO LESSONS ON (1) The Names and Titles of Our 
Lord ; (2) Prophesies Concerning Our Lord and their Fulfillment. 
By Flavel S, Cook, M. A., D. D. i6mo. cloth, 104 pages, 50 cents. 
Extremely full in the matter of reference and explanation, and likely to make the 

user "search the Scriptures." 

OUTLINE OF THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. By Rev. J. H. 
Brookes, D. D. Invaluable to the young student of the Bible as a 
" First Lesson " in the study of the Book. 180 pages. Cloth, 50 cents; 
paper covers, 25 cents. 

CHRIST AND THE SCRIPTURES. By Rev. Adolph Sapher. 
i6mo. cloth, 160 pages, 75 cents. 

To all disciples of Christ this work commends itself at once by its grasp of truth, 
its insight, the life in it, and its spiritual force. — Christian Work. 



NEW YORK: PlemmtiH FteUPlI CHICAGO: 

12 Bible House, Astor PI. { l<&'H» »/V P • l\0 \J <*l I 748 & 750 Madison St. 



fOf{ Wot^K 4pOflq C/flLD^Efl. 



Attractive Truths in Lesson and Story. By Mrs. A. M. Scudder, with 
introduction by Rev. F. E Clarke, Prest. Y. P. S. C. E. 12 mo; 
cloth, $1 25. 

A series of outline lessons with illustrative stories for Junior Christian Endeavor 
Societies, for Children's meetings and for home teaching. 

Not only for workers among children will this work be appreciated, but mothers 
will find it a delightful Sunday afternoon volume for their children, suggesting an end- 
less variety of "occupations," besides charming with its many beautiful stories. 

Children's Meetings and How to Conduct Them. By Lucy J. Rider, 

and Nellie M. Carman, introduction by Bishop J. H. Vincent. 208 

pp., cloth, illustrated, $1 00; paper covers, 50 cents. 

"Mr. Revell has conferred a favor on the Christian public, especially that large 

part of it interested in the right training of children, in publishing this most practical 

work." — The Advance. 

"Just such a work as teachers have long wanted. It will at once take a place 
among the indispensables.' 1 — N. T. Observer. 

"Among the contributors to this volume are nearly all the best known Sunday- 
school writers of this country. The book is a cyclopedia of helpful hints on the best 
plans of working among the children, plans suggested by the actual experience of the 
contributors." 

Clear as Crystal. By Rev. R. T. Cross. Fifty, five minute talks on les- 
sons from Crystals. 206 pp., beveled cloth, $1 00. 

"The Sermons belong to the five minute series, and are models of what can be 
done in so brief a space." — The Independent 

"Most interesting in style, and fall of spirituality . We commend this volume es- 
pecially to teachers who understand the value of fresh illustrations from nature." — 
The Christian at Work. 

Talks to Children. By Rev. T T. Eaton, D. D., with introduction by 
Rev. John A. Broadus, D. D., LL. D. 16 mo. cloth, $1 00. 

"Dr. Eaton's Talk* appear to us to possess in an unusual degree the qualities 
which interest and profit young hearers and readers. They reproduce Scripture his- 
tory in the terms of modern life and give it both a vivid setting before the youthful 
imagination, and a firm grip on the youthful conscience." — The Independent. 

"We have examined this work with intense interest. We have read many books 
of this kind, but we honestly believe that this volume of Dr. Eaton's excels them all.'''' — 
Central Baptist. 

"The best book of the kind we remember to have seen. We commend it especially 
to parents reading aloud to their children Sunday afternoon." — Examiner. 

Short Talks to Young Christians, on the Evidences of Christianity. 
By Rev. C. O. Brown. 168 pages, cloth, 50c, paper, 30 cents. 

"Books that are reallv useful, on the evidences of Christianity, could almost be 
counted on one's fingers. One which has been singled out from a ho=t of others by its 
plain straight forward sense is 'Short Talks to Young Christians on the Evidences 1 . 
by tre Rev. C. O. Browx."— Sunday School Times. 

Conversion of Children. By Rev. E. P. Hammond. A practical volume 

replete with incident and illustration. Suggestive, important and timely. 

184 pages, cloth, 75 cents, paper cover, 30 cents. 
Young People's Christian Manual. By Rev. Chas L Morgan. 321110. 

booklet, 5 cents; 25 copies, $1 00. 

A Catechetical Manual for the instruction of the young for use in Pastors' Train- 
ing Classes, Societies of Christian Endeavor, Sunday School, Or Family. 

"I have for years felt the need of something of this sort. I wish the Manual, 
might be wanted as widely as I am sure it is needed."— jfosiah Strong, D. I)., author 
k( Our Country." 



NEW YORK: ClflminriW OflWOll CHICAGO: 

12 Bible House, As tor PL \ X \ ' * ! ! V X P • ! \ \ V \ ' ' » 14S <£ 150 X Edison St. 



New Books for — 

— Thinking Minds. 

♦ •♦•■» 

WHAT ARE WE TO BELIEVE? or, The Testimony of Ful- 
filled Prophecy. By Rev. John Urquhart. i6mo., 230 pages, 
cloth, 75 cents. 

" This book, so small in bulk but so large in thought, sets forth a great mass of such tes- 
timony in lines so clear and powerful that we pity the man who could read it without 
amazement and awe. It is the very book to put into the hands of an intelligent Agnostic." 
— The Christian, London. 

MANY INFALLIBLE PROOFS. By Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, 
D. D. 317 pp. i2mo. Cloth, $1.25. 

" It is not an exercise in mental gymnastics, but an earnest inquiry after the truth." — 
Daily Telegram, Troy, N. Y. 

" He does not believe that the primary end of the Eible is to teach science ; but he 
argues with force and full conviction that nothing in the Bible has been shaken by scientific 
research." — Independent. 

HOW I REACHED THE MASSES; Together with twenty-two 
lectures delivered in the Birmingham Town Hall on Sunday after- 
noons. By Rev. Charles Leach, F. G. S. i6mo., cloth, $1.00. 

There is much of very welcome good sense and practical illustration in these addresses. 
Pithy and pointed in admonishment, and wholesome in their didactic tone, they ought to 
exercise a good influence. 

ENDLESS BEING; or, Man Made for Eternity. By Rev. J. L. 
Barlow. Introduction by the Rev. P. S. Henson, D. D. Cloth, 
i6mo., 165 pages, 75 cents. 

An unanswerable work ; meeting the so-called annihilation and kindred theories most 
satisfactorily. The author held for years these errors, and writes as one fully conversant 
with the ground he covers. It is a work which should be widely circulated, 

PAPERS ON PREACHING. By the Right Rev. Bishop Baldwin, 
Rev. Principal Rainy, D. D., Rev. J. R. Vernon, M. A., and others. 
Crown, 8vo, cloth, 75 cents. 

"Preachers of all denominations wili do well to read these practical and instructive 
disquisitions. The essay on " Expression in Preaching" is especially good. — Christian. 

THE SABBATH ; its Permanence, Promise, and Defence. 
By Rev. W. W. Everts, D. D. i2mo., 278 pages, cloth, $1.00. 

No phase of the Sabbath question is left undiscussed, while every topic is treated in the 
briefest manner, and every touch of light shows the hand of a master. 

" An incisive and effective discussion of the subject." — N. Y. Observer. 

" A thoughtful Christian defence of that divine institution." — Christian Advocate. 

QUESTIONS OF THE AGES. By Rev. Moses Smith. 
Cloth i2mo ; 132 pages, 75 cents. 



What is the Almighty? 

What is man ? 

What is the Trinity ? 

Which is the Great Commandment . 



Is there Common Sense in Religion? 

What is Faith ? 

Is there a Larger Hope ? 

Is Life Worth Living? 



What Mean these Stones ? 
" Discusses certain of the deep things of the Gospel in such a wise and suggestive 
fashion that they are helpful. One, answers negatively and conclusively the questioa, Is 
there a larger hope ? ' — The Congregationalist. 



12 Bible House, Astor PL [ » 6^1 Q§ y • l^6U8 1 1 U8 & UQ Madison #, 



MISSIONARY PUBLICATIONS 



REPORT OF THE CENTENARY CONFERENCE on the 
Protestant Missions of the World. Held in London, June, 1888. 
Edited by the Rev. James Johnston, F. S. S., Secretary of the Con- 
ference. Two large 8vo. vols., 1200 pages, $2.00 net per set. 

An important feature in this report, lack of which has prejudiced many against reports 
in general, is the special care taken by the Editor, who has succeeded in making the work 
an interesang and accurate reproduction of the most important accumulation of facts from 
the Mission Fields of the World, as given by the representatives of all the Evangelical 
Societies of Christendom. 

And another: The exceptionally complete and helpful indexing of the entire work in 
such a thorough manner as to make it of the greatest value as a Reference Encyclopedia on 
mission topics for years to come. 

THE MISSIONARY YEAR BOOK FOR 1889-90. Containing 
Historical and Statistical accounts of the Principle Protestant Missionary 
Societies in America, Great Britain and the Continent of Europe. 

The American edition, edited by Rev. J. T. Gracey, D.D., of Buffalo, embraces 
about 450 pages, one- fourth being devoted to the work of American Societies, and will 
contain Maps of India, China Japan, Burmah, and Siam ; also a language Map of India 
and comparative diagrams illustrating areas, population and progress of Mission work. 
This compilation will be the best presentation of the work of the American Societies in 
Pagan Lands that has yet been given to the public. The book is strongly recommended by 
Rev. Jas. Johnston, F.S.S., as a companion volume to the Report of the Century Con- 
ference on Missions. Cloth, 12mo. $1-25. 

GARENGANZE: or, Seven Years' Pioneer Missionary Work 
in Central Africa. By Fred. S. Arnot, with introduction by Rev. 
A. T. Pierson, D.D. Twenty Illustrations and an original Map. 

The author's two trips across Africa, entirely unarmed and unattended except by the 
local and constantly changing carriers, and in such marked contrast with many modern ad- 
venturers, strongly impress one to ask if another Livingstone has not appeared among us. 
Traversing where no white man had ever been seen before, and meeting kings and chiefs 
accustomed only to absolute power, he demanded and received attention in the name of his 
God. Cwth 8vo, 290 pages, $1.25. 

IN THE FAR EAST : China Illustrated. Letters from Gerald- 
ine Guinness. Edited by her sister, w ; th Introduction by Rev. A. J. 
Gordon, D. D. A characteristic Chinese cover. Cloth 4to, 138 pages, 
$1.00. 

CONTENTS. 

Ten Days on a Chinese Canal. 
At Hom'e in our Chinese " Haddon Hall." 
By Wheelbarrcw to Antong. 
Life on a Chinese Farm. 
A Visit to the " Shun " City. 
Blessing— and Need of Blessing — 
In the Far East. 



" Good-Bye ! " 

Second Class. 

On the Way to China. 

Hong-Kong and Shanghai. 

First days in the Flowery Land 

Opium Suicides amongst Women. 



Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, writes: 

" I have greatly enjoyed ' In the Far East.' God blessing it, the book should send 
armies of believers to invade the Flowry Land." 

The author is to be congratulated to, the taste and beauty with which these letters 
are now put into permanent form. A full page colored map of China enhances this ad- 
mirable gift book. 



NEW YORK : 
12 Bible House, AstorPl. 



flemir^J^evell M ™^ fc 



V5* 

6<" 










^^H 



Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. 
Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide 
Treatment Date: May 2005 

PreservationTechnologies 

A WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION 

1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive 
Cranberry Township. PA 16066 
(724) 771 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 





014 328 110 3 










